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| | New Orleans travel guide - Wikitravel |
 | | New Orleans, is the largest city (some 480,000 in the city, 1.3 million in the metropolitan area pre-Katrina) in Louisiana, as well as the state's top visitor destination. |
 | | New Orleans is known for a host of attributes like its famous Creole food, abundant alcohol, music of many styles, nearby swamps and plantations, 18th and 19th century architecture, antiques, gay pride, streetcars, museums. |
 | | New Orleans was not destroyed, but it was a severe blow, perhaps the worst to hit a U.S. city since the great San Francisco earthquake of 99 years earlier. |
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