Hidden Gems: New Orleans City Gardens
Longue Vue House and Gardens
Take a trip to the greener grasses of two beautiful gardens within the Big Easy’s city limits
In City Park, the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden is so easy to get to, just jump on the tram from the French Quarter that runs down Canal Street in the direction of the park, and you’re there within 20 minutes. www.neworleanscitypark.com; www.noma.org
At Longue Vue House and Gardens, you’ll find the 1930s Classical Revival Home and its Moorish-inspired gardens.
www.longuevue.com; www.neworleanscvb.com
Longue Vue: Hidden gems abound around every corner of the gardens.
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Sculpture Garden: Henry Moore’s curvaceous shapes welcome guests to the garden. Reclining Mother and Child, cast in 1977.
Sculpture Garden: Monumental Head of Jean d’Aire, by Auguste Rodin, sculpted in Bronze and enlarged in 1909-11.
Sculpture Garden: Overflow, by Jaume Plensa, sculpted in Stainless Steel in 2005, with Spider, in Bronze, by Louise Bourgeois and LOVE, in aluminum and acrylic enamel, by Robert Indiana in the background.