Jackson

The capital, a modern city, was formerly a cotton center. We will visit Governor's Mansion there, built in 1842, as well as Manship Home, district general of the Confederated States during the time when the city was their seat.

Natchez

The oldest colony in Mississippi River Valley was born under the French domination, its birth was marked by the construction of Fort Rosalie in 1716.

The city preserves more than five hundred houses a time prior to the American Civil War (Antebellum houses), including imposing manors, many of them have been transformed into hotels or bed-and-breakfasts. Taking a tour on foot by the Old Natchez Trail allows you to discover the wonders of the city.

Port Gibson
A small city remained unattacked by General Ulysses Grant ("Too beautiful to set on fire") is located very near to Natchez.

Tupelo
A modest two-room house where the King, Elvis Presley, was born on January 8, 1935, as well as the chapel and the museum newly enlarged, are to be find in this city.

Biloxi

Biloxi was the first permanent establishment in the low valley of Mississippi. On the Gulf of Mexico, this small station made its fame with the industry of shrimp and oysters.

The old ligthouse, built in 1848, is always in activity.

We will be able to visit Beauvoir, a beautiful residence, once home to president Jefferson Davis, as well as the Maritime and Seafood Industry Museum.

The fine sandy beaches of the Gulf of Mexico and the pleasant climatic conditions reigning there all the year gave birth to other picturesque and renowned holiday villages on the southern coast : Bay St.Louis, Gulfport or Pass Christian.

Road of the Blues

The Delta of Mississippi is generally considered as the birth place of the Blues, in the 19th century.

This musical style was born amongst the cotton plantations, and still very present within the Mississippi until now, as well as in the South of USA.

In many places : bars or clubs, we can see a blues live show.

Some of them are very touristic, others are more private and frequented by the local clientele. These latters, the Juke Joints, are undoubtedly the most interesting and the most authentic ones.

You might not be let in - show that you are discreet and polite if you are accepted to get in. Avoid talking or taking pictures during the sets.

Blues bars and clubs are distributed in the whole State, and mainly on the Road of the Blues, the Highway 61, that you can take from north to south, between Memphis in Tennessee and Vicksburg in Mississippi, as well as on the Highway 49, up to Jackson.