Culture of New Orleans - Recreations of New Orleans

Recreations of New Orleans

New Orleans Square, a replica of the French Quarter, was built in Disneyland in 1966, with buildings and landscaping meant to evoke 19th-century New Orleans. When it opened, Walt Disney had then-New Orleans mayor Victor H. Schiro made honorary mayor of New Orleans Square. Schiro, in turn, made Disney an honorary citizen of the real New Orleans.

Movie sets have been built in different parts of the world purporting to resemble the French Quarter or other parts of New Orleans.

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