Lafayette and Vermilionville
Heritage District · Lafayette, Louisiana
The capital of Acadiana, and the place to go if the reason you came to Louisiana was Cajun and Creole culture rather than New Orleans. Vermilionville is a twenty-three-acre living history village on the Bayou Vermilion with original and reconstructed buildings from 1765 to 1890 and Cajun musicians playing in the barn on Sunday afternoons. Around it is a working city where people still speak Louisiana French, where dance halls run on weeknights, and where the food is arguably better and certainly cheaper than in the city three hours east.
300 Fisher Road, Lafayette, Louisiana, 70508, United States
Vermilionville is open Tuesday to Sunday and CLOSED MONDAYS, generally mid-morning to mid-afternoon, with admission charged; the Sunday afternoon Cajun jam in the barn is included. The Acadian Cultural Center next door is a National Park Service site and is FREE with its own hours. Dance halls run evenings, several on weeknights, with free or small covers. Festival International de Louisiane runs five days in late April and is free.
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