What you can’t miss if you travel to Miami

Here is what we recommend you visit when traveling to Miami

Ocean Drive
The promenade that runs along South Beach, between the beach and the art deco buildings now converted into restaurants and nightclubs, is a walkway that never sleeps. If Miami is going to be seen or to be seen, this is the viewpoint through which sooner or later everyone passes.

The House of Versace
The place that the designer chose to live and where he was murdered is located in the heart of Ocean Drive. After a controversial renovation during which the adjacent building was demolished, the couturier campaigned tirelessly to defend the art deco of the area. Meanwhile, he turned his house into an ornate work in which he turned his personality. Now it is a small and luxurious hotel (The Villa), a restaurant with few tables and a must stop on all tourist routes, if only to contemplate its exterior.

Adrienne Arsht Center
It kicked off Miami’s cultural aspirations. It is a performing arts center in the purest American style: a signature building that hosts a program in which Broadway, ethnic music or the highest cultural expressions are mixed without complexes.

New World Symphony
The other cultural bet of the city of sin is an academy and concert hall located in a building designed by Frank Gehry. Here some of the future best concert artists in the world are trained, in a demanding and meritocratic way, many of them scholarship holders and from all over the world. When they are not rehearsing, they perform in their concert hall, with programs that often include sound miscegenations or are projected on one of their exterior walls.

Little Havana
More Cuban than Cuba, in this neighborhood some of the essences of a Cuba that no longer exists at all are jealously preserved. Its soul is 8th Street, which crosses it. On its banks you can buy handmade cigars right there, eat in typical wineries, listen to live music, buy fruits and flowers in the street stands or get everything you need to complete a santero ritual. Cubans, except for merchants, have been moving from there and their place has been occupied by immigrants from all over Latin America.

Miami Design District
The new fashionable area. Innovation in each store (fashion, jewelry and design objects) and international haute cuisine in its restaurants. In the shadow of the most brand new skyscrapers in Miami and with the keys in sight.

Hotel Biltmore
A vestige of the initial Miami that has arrived as it is and in full shape to the XXI century. The building, a national heritage site, was designed in the 20s by Schultze and Weaver, the architects of the Pierre and Waldorf Astoria New York hotels. Heads of state, Al Capone or Babe Ruth have passed through its rooms. Visitors can discreetly tour its hall, sign up for a dinner at its French restaurant, one of the best in the city, or spend a day in what was advertised as the largest pool in America, with the decadent air of Hollywood of the 30s that give its classic sculptures and palm trees.

Venetian swimming pool
Perhaps the most charming and enjoyable of Coral Gables’ many secrets. It is said that it was built to take advantage of the hole left by the limestone quarry with which the neighborhood was built, because everything had to be perfect there. It is an irregularly shaped pool with stone walls, caves, a waterfall, a bridge and many nooks and crannies. Its charm is the air at the same time rough and refined that does not clash with the luxurious pastiche that surrounds it.

Old Spanish monastery
Brought stone by stone from Sacramenia (Segovia), this mid-twelfth century monastery was brought to New York by Randolph Hearst and sold unpacked to Miami millionaires in the 50s. Its Cistercian cloister is exceptional. For about five euros you can visit, usually in complete solitude. It is at 16711 West Dixie Highway in the north.

Frost Art Museum
Located at Florida International University, this more than peculiar museum has an interesting collection of American photographs from the 60s and 70s, pre-Columbian objects from the third to the sixth centuries, African and Asian bronzes and a growing collection of Caribbean and Latin American art and crafts.