DK Travel : Miami

At its best, Miami is all pastel hues and warm, velvety zephyrs – a tropical reverie. The culture is sensuous and physical, often spiked with Caribbean rhythms and accents. Outdoor activities hold sway throughout the area, at the world-famous beaches and in the turquoise waters; the vibrant nightlife, too, attracts pleasure-seekers, while significant historical sights are around every corner.

Gay and Lesbian Community Center, Key West

There’s always plenty of information here for the taking, as well as occasional events.
George Merrick

The imaginative mind behind the development of Coral Gables (see Merrick’s Coral Gables Fantasies).
Georgie’s Alibi, Fort Lauderdale

This is a video bar, café, and sports bar, located in Fort Lah-Dee-Dah’s unique gay shopping center, in its unique gay town – Wilton Manors – which even has its own gay mayor. The Alibi opened in April of 1997 in a then rundown area, but Wilton Manors has since blossomed into a thriving gay community, and this bar has flourished with it. In fact, the Alibi is one of South Florida’s best gay venues, and always worth checking out.
Gesu Church

This Mediterranean-Revival building in the Spanish Colonial style (built 1922) is the oldest Catholic church in Miami. Dozens of masses are held every week, in English and Spanish. The church is noted for its stained-glass windows, which were made in Munich, Germany. The ceiling mural was restored in its entirety by a lone Nicaraguan refugee in the late 1980s.

Mosaic on dome of Gesu Church
Giralda Café

The 1,000-year-old traditions of Peruvian cookery – e.g. fried yucca with huancaina sauce, fish and shrimp cevíche, and beef stew in cilantro (coriander) sauce.
Gloria Estefan

For many, the symbol of unstoppable Cuban Power, this talented pop songstress has succeeded in building an impressive cultural and realestate empire.
Gold Coast Highway A1A

Route A1A hugs the sands of the Gold Coast, wending through Florida’s wealthiest and most beautiful areas.
Gold Coast Railroad Museum

The museum was started in 1957, by a group of Miamians who were trying to save threatened pieces of Florida history. Some of the earliest items in the collection are the “Ferdinand Magellan,” a private railroad car built for President Franklin Roosevelt; the FEC engine that pulled a rescue train out from Marathon after the 1935 hurricane; and the 113 locomotive built in 1913. The Edwin Link is a smallgauge children’s railroad.
Golf

No end of opportunities throughout South Florida. Many resorts have their own courses; one of the best in Greater Miami is the Jacaranda Golf Club in Plantation, voted South Florida’s Golf Club of the Year.
Golf

Golf courses are not as ubiquitous in the Keys as in the rest of Florida, but there are several good ones, for example on Marathon Key at MM 53.5 oceanside or a more expensive course on Key West.

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