The holiday season is always fun in New Orleans, with great shopping, holiday home and garden tours and great college football, New Orleans is the place to be.
These Christmas concerts at St. Louis Cathedral are scheduled at 6 pm on many occasions in December.
A wonderful 19th Century Creole tradition, Reveillon Dinners are still celebrated in restaurants all over New Orleans.
Whether it's the Beauregard-Keyes House, Gallier House, the Lousiana Museum's 1850's house, the Old Ursuline Convent, or and the New Orleans Pharmacy Museum in the French Quarter, or the Garden District Uptown, New Orleans residences are beautifully decorated for the holidays and many are open to the public.
The Sugar Bowl is a great time for college football fans.
Skip the malls and shop New Orleans style on Magazine Street and the French Quarter.
7. Holiday Character Strolls
The “Louisiana Living History Project” sponsors this popular tradition, as famous Louisiana characters stroll through the French Quarter, telling their stories and cementing their place in history. Thouughout December.The New Orleans Bowl is held every December and is a fun college football weekend.