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The French Quarter, known to locals as the Vieux CarrÃ©, is the historic heart of New Orleans and one of the most atmospheric districts in the United States. Laid out in 1718 by French colonists, it is the city's oldest neighbourhood, and despite its name much of its surviving architecture is Spanish, the legacy of devastating fires in the late eighteenth century that swept away the original French buildings during a period of Spanish rule. That layered colonial past gives the Quarter its disti...