Mobile, one of the more important ports and industrial towns on the Gulf of Mexico, lies in a bay in south-western Alabama that reaches over 25 mi. inland. The town was founded by French immigrants at the beginning of the 18th C Mardi Gras (Carnival) is still a lively annual event. A number of well preserved antebellum houses (e.g. Oakleigh
Mansion, De Tonti Square) and beautiful gardens planted with azaleas give the town its special atmosphere. Other places of interest are the Fine Arts Museum of the South, the Museum of the City of Mobile, the Cathedral (1835) and an old French fort (rebuilt), Fort Condé.
In Battleship Memorial Park are the destroyer "Alabama" and the submarine "Drum", which fought in the Second World War and the Korean War.
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