Miami Area, FL

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Coconut Grove

This bayside neighborhood has one of the most colorful characters of any in the country. Celebrities walk around like just another one of the crowd, street dancing and bed races are "business-as-usual," and sidewalk cafés line the brick paths for a perfect vantage point to it all. Shops are mostly trendy boutiques and the people are a cross-section of Miami's melting pot. The festive, funky spirit of the Grove makes you feel like you stumbled into a surprise party!.

Coral Gables

This is an elegant and historic neighborhood of meticulously preserved landmarks and stately Mediterranean architecture. Tree-lined streets and red brick sidewalks set the ambience for upscale shopping along Miracle Mile or dining in nationally-acclaimed restaurants and supper clubs. Bookstores host poetry-readings, the University of Miami Hurricanes dominate college sports, and museums showcase local and international masterpieces. In addition, its graceful parks, tropical gardens, and fountain pools all contribute to earning this community the title of "City Beautiful.".

Downtown Miami

This area of Miami has had many lives. In the 20s and 30s, it was a sleepy rural town. In the 40s and 50s it was at the heart of the good life, when big name entertainers like Sinatra regularly appeared, shopping was an elegant pastime, and Pier 5's neon sailfish welcomed thousands of visitors every year. Then, in the 60s and 70s, all of it faded away and downtown was just a business center during the day and a ghost town at night. Today, Miami's downtown district has been reborn as an energetic shopping, dining, and nightlife center.

Key Biscayne

This quiet resort and residential island in Biscayne Bay has vistas toward Coconut Grove, Downtown Miami, Miami Beach, and the Atlantic Ocean, with a causeway connecting it to Coconut Grove. If you're looking for beautiful beaches, fine restaurants, resort hotels, nature trails, fishing, and championship golf/tennis in a peaceful setting, yet with easy access to the excitement of Miami Beach and Coconut Grove, this is the spot for you.

Little Havana

There's a song that says "Only in Miami is Cuba so far away." This southwest Miami neighborhood (called la sawesera by local Cubans) is the exile community's connection to the Cuban homeland, so close and yet so far. Everywhere you go, you'll hear Spanish, as Cubans discuss politics in the park while playing dominos under a palm tree, the aroma of scrumptious Cuban food wafts past, and the kinetic Cuban music pours out of every window and doorway. Cubans are island people, and their community is bursting with the distinctively upbeat spirit of that island life.

Miami Beach

When people think of Miami, it is the white sand shores of Miami Beach that usually first come to mind, yet there is so much more to discover. This neighborhood is renowned for its elegance and culture, with museums, private residential islands, discerning shops, upscale nightclubs, and performance centers that captivate a never-ending stream of visitors and have drawn such residents as diverse as Gloria Estefan and Al Capone!.

South Beach

This tiny strip at the tip of Miami Beach is a siren's call to the international jet-set party crowd. The glittering neon and art deco district has become the favorite place "to see and be seen" by everyone from college kids to superstars getting together to chat, eat, drink, people-watch, and dance till dawn from one club to the next, at parties that spill into the street and onto the shore. South Beach is now the third-largest production center of the film, television, print, music, and fashion industries, a feature of the neighborhood that has dramatically escalated its glamour and popularity.

For more information about Miami Area, FL

Greater Miami Convention and Visitors Bureau

701 Brickell Avenue, Suite 2700, Miami, Florida 33131, phone 305-539-3000, fax 305-539-3113, email visitor@tropicoolmiami.com.