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Plan your escape to the Happiest City in America-Lafayette, LA. Below, you will find attractions throughout Lafayette Parish, where you can select and add them to your custom Trip Planner, which can be downloaded via PDF or emailed straight to you. So what are you waiting for? Start planning your trip to the heart of Louisiana's Cajun & Creole Country below.

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Farmers Markets in Acadiana

Farmers markets in Lafayette and the surrounding areas offer a vibrant glimpse into the region's rich agricultural traditions and cultural diversity. From the fields of the…

Lafayette Weekly

A weekly curated playlist by local musician Philippe Billeaudeaux featuring music by Lafayette, LA musicians with a weekly rundown of live music happening in and around the area…

Cajun Music

Cajun music is a central component and marker of Cajun identity and culture in southwestern Louisiana. Largely accordion and fiddle-based and primarily sung in vernacular French…

Cajun & Creole Instruments: Accordion

A relatively recent invention, the bellows-driven, vibrating reed squeezebox known as the accordion, was first manufactured in Germany and later in Russia in the 1820s. It is…