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As one of the longest licensed guides in the city and a resident before Hurricane Katrina, I have a vast amount of information to share! The Dark History Tour is unique in the city, and it's a way of seeing this fascinating place that none other can offer! Bring your questions - they're Always welcome!
This is my Absolute favourite tour – a walk through the streets of the Old French Quarter, hearing the history of our city through the stories of its legends, its great disasters, and unsolved murders. We begin in Pirate's Alley, and move into Jackson Square hearing about the original founding, the dire circumstances and reason for its creation. After that we continue downriver into the original end of the city, with a stop at the city's oldest tavern for a break (libations, anyone?), visiting the original structures along with three hundred years of dark history! Book now as we keep our groups small!
622 Pirate's Alley in front of Pirate's Alley Cafe. I'll have a sign up that says "Jonathan Weiss Dark History Tours".
The center of the old city from it's inception, the square has been the scene of drama and trama since 1718! Elegant gardens, stately oaks and shady benches adorn this park inspired by the Tuileries in Paris.
Meeting in Pirate's Alley right next to Faulkner House books, stop in prior to the tour in one of the most delightful old fashioned (and tiny!) bookshops you could imagine. The site of one of William Faulkner's early residences, he wrote his first novel "Soldier's Pay" in this building.
Muriel's is one our favourite restaurants, and the site of much paranormal doings reflecting it's tragic history. Beautifully decorated in the French Second Empire style, it's elegant, mysterious, and has a dark past of it's own.
A very old residence in the Vieux Carre, it's past is as rich and grimly real as you could imagine a centuries old home in New Orleans to be. It will be returning to public view in the new year, but learn it's history which is timeless now.
The oldest tavern in the city and legendary haunt of pirates, privateers and prostitutes - the organised crime hub of early New Orleans, and the perfect place for a short break for a cocktail and history!
An amazing example of Greek Revival architecture with it's own history of murder and mayhem, and open for daytime tours.
Ending the tour at the oldest structure in a third of North America, it's a place of intense legend, and amazing history and open for daytime tours as well! Close to restaurants and entertainment, but still in the local and quieter end of the French Quarter.
Free tours do not have a set price, instead, each person gives the guru at the end of the tour the amount that he or she considers appropriate (these usually range from €10 to $50 depending on satisfaction with the tour).
