New Orleans Sin and Salvation Walking Tour 2 hr

New Orleans has spent nearly three centuries balancing the sacred and the scandalous. On this 2-hour New Orleans Sin and Salvation Walking Tour, explore how faith, vice, morality, power, and forgiveness have shaped a city that resists easy definitions.

Begin near Jackson Square, looking toward St. Louis Cathedral as your guide introduces stories of notorious Gallatin Street and Bricktop. Continue into the city’s religious history through figures and institutions including Père Antoine, the Ursulines, Marie Laveau, Henriette Delille, and the Sisters of the Holy Family. Along the way, discover how Mardi Gras, Lent, temperance, Storyville, jazz, and the lives of Josie Arlington, Lulu White, and Norma Wallace reveal the many sides of New Orleans.

The walk ends seated in a former bordello, where the conversation turns to salvation and the question of who gets to define it. Hear these layered stories from a guide with ancestral ties to the city. Book the New Orleans Sin and Salvation Walking Tour for a thoughtful look at the histories that still shape its streets.