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.
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.
Situated on a small island linked to downtown Miami and Miami Beach via a causeway, the Standard is an über-hip, contemporary hotel resurrected inside the shell of an older, 1950s-style motor lodge.