Heading up the west coast of the peninsula, you'll come to Sarasota, which boasts in addition to thirty-five miles of white sand beaches, an array of tourist attractions. John Ringling made his home here and it's still the winter quarters of the Ringling Brothers-Barnum and Bailey Circus. The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art is built in fifteenth-century Florentine style and contains the greatest American collection of Rubens' paintings. Near the museum is the Ringling Residence, modeled after the Doge's Palace in Venice, and the Museum of American Circus.
St. Petersburg, to the north, is known as the sunshine capital and is a popular retirement center. The sun is so dependable here that the St.
Petersburg Independent gives away newspapers free any day it fails to shine by 3 P.M. Second only to Miami as a winter resort, St. Petersburg offers beaches, parks and a yacht basin along Tampa Bay. All this is set in a relaxed atmosphere devoted to wholesome pleasures of swimming, sunning and boating. Resorts include the Outrigger Inn.
North of St. Petersburg and just west of the city of Clearwater, is the Belleview Biltmore, an elegant resort set on 600 acres of waterfront property overlooking Clearwater Sound.
No comments:
Post a Comment