Half-Day City Tour: What Makes Miami Shine
- Overview
This tour is 3.5 hours and covers the 5 neighborhoods that make Miami shine. This tour is private, picking up just your group (4 person minimum). The neighborhoods include South Beach, Wynwood and the Design District, Downtown/Brickell, Coconut Grove and Coral Gables. Get off the beaten path. Combine historic Miami with scenic Miami. The Miami Historic Preservation board has 137 sites listed in the city of Miami. 73 of those will be passed by, not including those from the separate cities of Miami Beach and Coral Gables.
A lot of back roads including a ride over the Key Biscayne bridge for the view, and love to end the tour at a special place. Popular spots to stop include the Wynwood Walls, Miami Circle and Manatee sites. The best ending spots include Lincoln Road for lunch and a stroll, Perez Art Museum and Bayside for a boat ride on Biscayne Bay.
South Beach was a geriatric ghetto before hipsters came and made it an art deco and cultural playground. The largest concentration of Art Deco buildings in the world are located here. Sites include Ocean Drive, Versace Mansion, Star Island, Lincoln Road, Espanola Way and New World Symphony Park, Wynwood (always a cool stop, with its ever-changing mural painted walls), the Design District, Little Haiti, Downtown, Brickell and the Key Biscayne Bridge.
To name a few more in Coconut Grove - every native's favorite part of Miami, sites include Viscaya, Madonna and Stallone homes, LeBron Home, Peacock Park, Kampong Gardens, Christmas Park, Barnacle State Park, Plymouth Congregational, El Jardin, Charles Avenue, Grove Cemetery, multiple Black Grove sites. Lastly, you will see Coral Gables Manatee sites, the Biltmore hotel and the Venetian Pool.