Visit Lafayette to experience the 'Happiest City in America'. As the largest city in Lafayette Parish, Lafayette, Louisiana mixes all the amenities of urban life, including universities and medical centers, with the unmistakable influence of the region's venerable Cajun and Creole cultures.

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Lafayette is at the heart of Louisiana's Cajun & Creole Country, an area known as the Happiest City in America where people visit for a genuine Cajun & Creole experience. Lafayette has a distinct culinary identity as the epicenter of Cajun & Creole cuisine that's earned them the title Best Food City in the USA.

It's true: Lafayette was not always known as Lafayette. The region that would become today's Lafayette was once named St. Jean du Vermilionville, but the name soon was shortened to Vermilionville. Vermilionville sat in an area of two parishes:

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But there is an astonishing amount of money for a city of 85,000 people. Arthur Broussard, president of the Guaranty Bank, Lafayette's largest, estimates that there are ''a thousand, perhaps more'' millionaires in town. Others say there are as many as 2,000.