Mobile, AL Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

The busy port and paper manufacturing city of MOBILE (pronounced Mo-beel ) traces its origins back to a French community founded in 1702. These early white settlers brought with them Mardi Gras , celebrated in Mobile continuously since 1704 – several years before New Orleans. Virtually every street is transformed in early spring by the delicate colors of azaleas, camellias and dogwoods – a beautiful complement to the many early eighteenth-century Spanish and colonial-style buildings. Parallels with New Orleans are everywhere you look, from wrought-iron balconies to street names like Conti and … more »