This fantastic Mediterranean-style palazzo on Miami Beach's Ocean Drive built in 1930 as an apartment complex, was the stately retreat of celebrated fashion designer, Gianni Versace.
Wide boulevards lined with Mediterranean Revival-style mansions; graceful fountains, coral rock pools and tropical gardens--Coral Gables, is an elegant, easygoing South Florida city creating a perfect blend of Old World and New World attractions.
I hope you get a tour guide like mine.
The Naples Grande Beach Resort is a short walk along a Mandrake lined boardwalk to the Gulf Coast of Florida.
It's often called the "Hearst Castle of the East." Located on Miami's Biscayne Bay in north Coconut Grove, the spectacular palazzo built in 1916 by agricultural industrialist James Deering as a winter home, is now a serene museum and beautifully landscaped botanical garden.
Jensen Beach is a wonderfully quiet beach and quaint town by the same name.
If you're looking to buy a Guayabera -- the pleated, button-down shirts that are synonymous with Cuba -- then this is the place to go.