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   Vizcaya Museum and Gardens

   The winter estate James Deering built between 1914 and 1922 on Biscayne Bay, an Italian villa filled with European interiors he bought and shipped whole. A thousand workers, a tenth of Miami's population then, built it; the stone barge in the bay is by Alexander Stirling Calder.

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   Downtown Miami

   The urban core, some 3.8 square miles east of Interstate 95, taking in the business district, Brickell, Park West and the arts district, and split in two by the Miami River. Brickell Avenue and Biscayne Boulevard run north to south, Flagler Street east to west.

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   Miami Seaquarium

   A fifteen-hectare oceanarium on Virginia Key that opened in 1955, where the television series Flipper was filmed. The orca Lolita was kept here from 1970 until she died in 2023; the park closed on 12 October 2025 after seventy years.

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   Pérez Art Museum Miami

   The city's contemporary art museum, founded in 1984 and moved in 2013 to a Herzog & de Meuron building on Biscayne Boulevard raised on stilts against storm surge. Hanging columns of plants by Patrick Blanc cover its veranda, which is free to walk under.

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   Venetian Islands

   A chain of artificial islands across Biscayne Bay, dredged from 1922 and linked by a causeway of twelve bridges. Biscayne, San Marco, San Marino, Di Lido, Rivo Alto and Belle Isle are inhabited; Flagler Memorial Island, with its obelisk of 1920, is left as a picnic island.

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   Holocaust Memorial of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation

   A Holocaust memorial on Meridian Avenue in Miami Beach, designed by Kenneth Treister and dedicated in 1990, whose central bronze arm rises twelve metres with about a hundred figures climbing it. The address, 1933-1945, was chosen deliberately.

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   Bayfront Park

   A thirteen-hectare park on Biscayne Bay in downtown Miami, redesigned by Isamu Noguchi in the 1980s with a rock garden, an amphitheatre and a mound. The city's New Year countdown and its largest concerts are held on it.

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   North Miami Museum of Contemporary Art

   A collecting museum of contemporary art in North Miami, in a 23,000-square-foot building by Gwathmey Siegel of New York that opened in 1996. Its programme leans towards emerging artists and towards work from the Caribbean and Latin American diaspora.

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   Virginia Key

   A 349-hectare barrier island reached by the Rickenbacker Causeway, holding the city's marine research campus and a beach. Under segregation Virginia Key Beach was the only one in Miami open to Black residents, opened in 1945 after a wade-in protest; it is now a historic park.

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    Haulover Park

    A 72-hectare county park north of Bal Harbour with a marina, a kite shop and Florida's only legally sanctioned clothing-optional beach, permitted since 1991. About a million people a year use that stretch, which makes it one of the busiest nude beaches in the world.

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   Miami Circle

   A circle eleven metres across cut into the limestone bedrock at the mouth of the Miami River, found in 1998 when a block of flats was demolished. Its twenty-four basins are read as postholes of a Tequesta structure of about two thousand years ago; the site was bought by the state and left buried.

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   Wynwood Art District

   A district of 1920s warehouses in Wynwood whose blank walls were given to muralists from 2009 by the developer Tony Goldman, starting with Wynwood Walls. Over fifty galleries and museums now sit among the murals, which are repainted regularly.

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   Jungle Island

   A park on Watson Island that began in 1936 as Parrot Jungle in South Miami and moved here in 2003. Macaws, orangutans and a liger are among the animals, and the free-flight bird show is what the original park was built on.

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   St. Bernard de Clairvaux Church

   The cloister of a Cistercian monastery built at Sacramenia in Segovia in the 12th century, which William Randolph Hearst bought in 1925 and shipped to New York in some eleven thousand numbered crates. It lay in a warehouse for decades before being rebuilt here in the 1950s as an Episcopal church.

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   Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden

   A 34-hectare tropical garden in Coral Gables, opened in 1938 and named for the plant explorer David Fairchild, who introduced mangoes and dates to the United States. Its palm and cycad collections are among the most complete anywhere; hurricanes Andrew and Irma both flattened parts of it.

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   Cathedral of Saint Mary

   The Catholic cathedral of Miami, built in 1958 in the Little River district before the diocese was created, and made a cathedral in 1968. Mass is said in English, Spanish and Haitian Creole, which is a fair summary of the archdiocese.

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   South Pointe Park

   A 6.9-hectare park at the southern tip of Miami Beach, opened in 2009 on land cleared of 1930s housing. It faces Government Cut, so cruise ships pass within a hundred metres, and the pier at the end is a fishing spot.

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   Maurice A. Ferré Park

   A twelve-hectare waterfront park in downtown Miami, named after the mayor who served from 1973 to 1985, holding the Pérez Art Museum and the Frost Museum of Science. It was called Museum Park until 2019 and links Bayfront Park with the arena along the bay.

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   Watson Island

   A man-made island in Biscayne Bay just east of downtown, crossed by the MacArthur Causeway on its way to South Beach. Built up from dredge spoil in the 1920s, it now holds Jungle Island, the children's museum and a seaplane base.

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    The Barnacle Historic State Park

    A two-hectare state park in Coconut Grove around a bayfront house of 1891 built by Ralph Middleton Munroe, who raised it on stilts and cross-ventilated it against the heat. It is the oldest house in Miami-Dade County still on its original site.

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