Mobile and Pensacola

Day 1 · ~2.0 mi (3.2 km)

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   Oakleigh Historic Complex

   Oakleigh Garden District; 1833 Greek Revival house museum with a cottage and a post-Emancipation house

   Morning · 75 min

   Take the guided tour of Oakleigh, starting at the curving cantilevered stair up to the front door, then see the Cox-Deasy Cottage and the Union Barracks.

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   Oakleigh Garden Historic District

   South of downtown; National Register district of nearly 300 historic houses from the 1820s to the 1940s

   Morning · 45 min · free

   Walk the shaded streets and look at the porches, columns and ironwork of the old houses.

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   Mobile Carnival Museum

   355 Government Street; Mardi Gras museum of queens' gowns, trains and doubloons, opened in 2005

   Midday · 75 min · $

   See the long jeweled trains worn by Carnival queens, then climb onto the float in the carriage house and throw doubloons.

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   Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception

   2 South Claiborne Street; Greek Revival cathedral of 1835 to 1850 with stained glass from Munich

   Morning · 30 min · free

   Take in the columned portico and twin towers from the street, then step inside to see the tall stained-glass windows.

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   Dauphin Street

   Downtown Mobile; main street of restaurants and bars in a historic district of buildings back to the 1820s

   Evening · 60 min · free

   Walk Dauphin Street from the river end west past Bienville Square, then stay for dinner and live music in the evening.

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   Bienville Square

   Downtown Mobile; city park since 1850 under live oaks, with a cast-iron fountain of the 1890s

   Midday · 20 min · free

   Sit under the live oaks by the cast-iron fountain and watch downtown go by; Dauphin Street runs along one side.