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Miami Beach South Beach Art Deco District Facts
One of the most famous Florida vacation rental properties
neighborhoods in the world, this area has been referred to as "America's Riviera." The ultra rich and
famous cavort around Ocean Drive Florida vacation rental properties and dine in the sumptuous restaurants
and the sidewalk cafés. Here you'll find the Art Deco District, where the lovely boutique hotels and
Florida vacation rental properties, with their bright colors, retro designs and hip bars, line up along
the beach. Walking and bicycle tours let visitors see the more than 400 registered historic buildings and
Florida vacation rental properties. Trendy, fashionable and exotic are the best ways to describe this
popular Florida vacation rental properties destination. When most people think of Miami, they think of
South Beach.
Miami Beach / South Beach Facts
Florida vacation rental properties Fact 1: Boosterism - thy home is Miami. Miami was
little more than a lighthouse and trading post until residents started touting it as Florida vacation
rental properties tropical paradise and persuaded a railroad to extend its line. Florida East Coast Railway
rolled into town in 1896, dropping tourists at a luxury hotel that described itself as "America's Sun
Porch."
Florida vacation rental properties Fact 2: Described as the "river of grass" by
conservationist Marjory Stoneman Douglas, the Everglades is a shallow, 40-mile wide, slow moving river.
The Everglades National Park consists of 1.5 million acres - less than 20% of the Everglades wilderness.
The Shark Valley Entrance lies on the north side of the park and is about 35 miles west of downtown Miami.
Florida vacation rental properties Fact 3: A little bit of Cuba, anyone? In the 40 years
since Castro's revolution 290 miles to the south, Miami's Cuban-American population has grown to account
for a third of the 2 million people living there. Little Havana is lined with Cuban bistros, fruit stands
and coffee shops, and its annual Carnival Miami International is the largest Hispanic cultural festival in
the nation.
Florida vacation rental properties Fact 4: Diver Down! Greater Miami and the beaches are
home to one of the largest artificial reef programs in the world. Over a period of twenty years, airplanes,
ships, tanks, concrete and limestone structures, and a water tower have been sunk in order to provide a
haven for scuba divers. Called the Wreckreational Dive Capital of the Americas, most of the best sites are
found in less than 130 feet of water.
Florida vacation rental properties Fact 5: You might expect to see Ali Baba and
Scheherazade step around the corner when you venture into this Miami Florida vacation rental properties
suburb. Opa-locka has more than a touch of Moorish flair to it with its domes and minarets. Its developer,
Glenn Curtiss, put his fascination with The Arabian Nights into his vision for the city.
Florida vacation rental properties Fact 6: Looking for the pastel colors, bas-relief
friezes, towers and terrazzo stone that often characterizes art deco? Miami Florida vacation rental
properties has the largest collection of art deco architecture in the world. There's the Breakwater Hotel
with its ancient Mayan look and the Park Central Hotel, which appears to be right out of Hollywood's
glamorous days of the 1920's and 1930's.
Florida vacation rental properties Fact 7: What's the oldest building in Miami? It's
neither the nineteenth century lighthouse nor any of the early hotels. Actually, it's a twelfth century
Spanish monastery that newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst had shipped to the States in pieces. The
monastery languished in a warehouse for 26 years until new owners put it together as a tourist attraction.
Florida vacation rental properties Fact 8: "Life's a Beach" - especially in Miami! Dade
County has more than 35 miles of wide beaches. However, your best bets are Miami Beach and Key Biscayne.
Bring along a picnic for a full day in the sun but ditch the alcohol - it and glass bottles are prohibited.
Florida vacation rental properties Fact 9: Vizcaya is Miami's answer to San Simeon and
the Vanderbilt homes of Newport and Asheville. The 34-room mansion with its 10 acres of terraced gardens
was the dream of International Harvester tycoon James Deering. Designed like a Renaissance Italian villa,
the home required 1,000 servants during Deering's years there.
Florida vacation rental properties Fact 10: If you get tired of betting on the horses,
check out the flamingos. Miami has been the home of the famed Hialeah Park horseracing track for 75 years.
Within the manicured green inside the track are fountains, statues, and some 400 pink flamingos.
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