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Sounds like less of a feast of "senses", and more a feast of colonial history.
After I specifically described how the different senses are engaged? Not all of them have to do with history either. I'm pretty sure you can appreciate the sound of horse-drawn carriages or the taste of ginger cakes without delving into the historical aspects.
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I'd agree with the previous poster of New Orleans for the senses, but it will have next to nothing colonially.
It doesn't have to be colonial. I'm asking in general what places people consider a feast for the senses. In what ways do you personally think New Orleans fits the bill?
I'm asking in general what places people consider a feast for the senses. In what ways do you personally think New Orleans fits the bill?
The loud and spicy food, chichory coffee, beignets, warm muggy air (from both the Gulf and the Mississippi), exotic feel from the diversity and old history, public music (especially the lively jazzy), fun and outgoing people, etc.
Sight - So much diversity, applies to people, neighborhoods, buildings, street art, vantage points, etc.
Sound - Cars, buses, horns, sirens, people talking, etc. Sitting on a high-rise balcony on a warm summer evening listening to the sounds of New York is relaxing.
Smell - The smells of a big city, especially in the summer are unique. lol.
Taste - Lots of great food, coffee, ice cream, etc.
Sight - Just two days ago I was watching construction work on an entire ground floor of a half-block-long office building on King Street. Five retailers are locating there, one a New York fashion store that is putting its first store outside of New York in Charleston. About that time a horse came clomping by with a carriage full. Then a CARTA (Charleston Area Regional Transit Authority) bus came by. The carriage and bus happened between my ogling of the architecture.
Sound - Walk along the battery or Waterfront Park for the sound of water lapping into the marsh or against the battery wall. Buskers provide serendipitous music downtown. People chat and laugh as they wait in lines outside popular restaurants and bars.
Smell - Get a whiff of that horse manure. Sniff up the scent of oysters wafting out of alleyways just outside of restaurant kitchens. Ummm, breathe in the smell of pluff mud at the wharfs and piers at low tide.
Taste - Gullah-Geechee dishes, shrimp and grits, barbeque, desserts, cocktails, and much more: they're all here.
Colonial Williamsburg is a weird here because it’s very curated like a living museum. And a “feast for the senses” usually steers the mind to the opposite of that.
Sights - Historic Architecture, great People-Watching
Sounds - Traffic on cobbled streets, overheard conversations, clatter of busy shops/restaurants
Smells - amazing food scents wafting out from restaurants, markets, cafes and bakeries plus salt air off the harbor
Taste - The food, amazing Italian fare and seafood
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Not all of them have to do with history either. I'm pretty sure you can appreciate the sound of horse-drawn carriages or the taste of ginger cakes without delving into the historical aspects.
