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SIZZLIN SUMMER RATES! Come and enjoy our luxury salt water pool and spa at the best bed and breakfast in New Orleans. Like the most gracious Southern hostess, New Orleans welcomes visitors with a genuine hospitality and singular flair. The city’s intricate mélange of cultures creates a chameleon destination; with so many aspects to its character, the city truly can offer something for every type of visitor, appeal to every interest, and fulfill every agenda with equal enthusiasm. The city is full of complexities and contradictions, but its multifaceted personality somehow blends into an offbeat harmony that defines the city’s unmistakable charm. New Orleans is at once a city of marvelous excesses and gentle subtleties. It fosters peaceful relaxation and unfettered abandon. It can deliver the wildest nightlife entertainment and the most family-oriented vacation. It is bawdy and sophisticated, historic and contemporary, relaxing and energizing, educational and recreational, rustic and refined. Still, with all of these facets, a New Orleans experience is never anything but completely authentic. The city’s marvelous eccentricities are born from a rich heritage, respectfully and indelibly woven into the fabric of everyday life here. New Orleans doesn’t act a part for its visitors; it simply welcomes everyone with open arms to a world all its own. Learn about this special city, and come stay awhile. Book now before it’s too late!		Availability will not last long… Reserve Today!
SUMMER FESTIVALS Greek Fest May 22-24, 2009 A local favorite, this festival near the Lakefront features Greek dancing, food and music. Vieux-To-Do June 13-14, 2009 Celebrate New Orleans' unique culture at three festivals over one weekend. The Louisiana Seafood and Cajun Zydeco festivals join the Creole Tomato Festival for a half mile of food, music and fun in the French Quarter. Go 4th on the River July 4, 2009 This July 4th extravaganza on the Riverfront features outdoor concerts and a dazzling fireworks display. ESSENCE Music Festival July 3-5, 2009 Now celebrating its 15th year! The Superdome hosts this "party with a purpose," the nation's premier celebration of African-American culture and urban entertainment. Tales of the Cocktail July 8-12, 2009 Enjoy lectures, dinner pairings, cooking demonstrations, cocktail mixing seminars, walking tours, film screenings and bartending courses at the Hotel Monteleone and other French Quarter locations. Satchmo SummerFest July 30-August 2, 2009 New Orleans' ongoing homage to Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong reaches its yearly high at this annual festival in the French Quarter. Click here for more information on this and other New Orleans events.		Come join the party!
ARMSTRONG PARK AND CONGO SQUARE Armstrong Park was created to honor New Orleans' favorite son, the great Louis Armstrong, and to preserve the site of Congo Square. Congo Square is the unofficial name for an open space in the southern corner of Louis Armstrong Memorial Park. Officially named Beauregard Square, the site is paved in cobblestones and has large oaks and other ornamentals. The site has remained an open meeting area since the establishment of the city. Congo Square was recently listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Before 1800, African-American slaves gathered on Sunday afternoons in an open field just outside the city walls on the edge of the Treme plantation. African-Americans, both enslaved and free, used this space to market goods, socialize, and participate in drumming, musicmaking, and dance. This interaction helped maintain a musical heritage and social cohesion in the African-American community. New Orleanians and visitors to the city also came here to witness African-American music and dance. The use of this area declined in the 1840s and ended by the beginning of the Civil War. Today, however, Congo Square holds a special symbolic importance to African-Americans. Although the historic use of the site predates jazz, it is significant because of the role the square played in New Orleans' musical heritage and as a symbol of the early African-American contributions to the origins of jazz and other musical forms. Visit our New Orleans links page for more information on this and other new Orleans attractions.		Be sure to visit Congo Square in Armstrong Park!
LEARN THE LINGO: NEW ORLEANS STYLE Camelback (cam' l bak) Found throughout New Orleans a Camelback house, also called Humpback, is a variation of the Shotgun style of architecture that has a partial second floor over the rear of the house. A shotgun house is a narrow rectangular domestic residence, usually no more than 12 feet wide, with doors at each end. It was the most popular style of house in the Southern United States from the end of the Civil War (1861–65), through to the 1920s. Camelback houses were built in the later period of shotgun houses. The floor plan and construction is very similar to the traditional shotgun house, except there are stairs in the back room leading up to the second floor. The second floor, or "hump", contains one to four rooms. Because it was only a partial second story, most cities only taxed it as a single-story house - in fact, this was a key reason for their construction.		A typical Camelback house in New Orleans!
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