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A Bahamian party that includes a parade, Island food, Caribbean music, and junkanoo dancers parading through the streets. It claims to be the biggest African-American heritage festival in the US.

Celebrating Coconut Grove’s Bahamian heritage, with music, dance, and loads of fun.

Built in 1951, this Deco-style venue is proud to have been one of the first in the country to host Luciano Pavarotti when he was still a virtual unknown. Operas, concerts, and touring events all benefit from the excellent acoustics in the auditorium.

A traditional American county fair, replete with rides, sideshows, cotton candy, candied apples, live performances, and exhibits relating to farm life and crafts.

Designed by the celebrated American architect Philip Johnson in 1982, the Mediterranean-style complex, set around a tiled plaza, incorporates the Miami Art Museum; the Historical Museum of Southern Florida); and the Main Public Library, which contains four million books.

Basket-weaving, palmetto dollmaking, beadwork, dugout carving, and alligator wrestling.

Oriental rugs – some very old and exquisite – art, textiles, wall-hangings, and beautiful ceramics from Central Asia and China. The atmosphere is delightfully Eastern, right down to the tea served.

If your kids are demanding designer duds, this is the top shop. Couturier masters such as Moschino and Versace have begun creating trendy threads for the preschool-to-adolescent market.

In 1940, a developer hyped the town’s main shopping street by naming it Miracle Mile (a mile if you walk up one side and down the other). Colorful canopies adorn shops as prim and proper as their clientele. Buildings of note are Merrick’s Colonnade Building, at 169, with its splendid rotunda; the Doc Dammers’ Saloon, with great photos of old Coral Gables; and, on nearby Salzedo Street at Aragon Avenue, the Old Police and Fire Station, 1939, with square-jawed sculpted firemen.