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Far and away the most exciting city in Florida, MIAMI
is a stunning and often intoxicatingly beautiful place.
Awash with sunlight-intensified natural colors, there
are moments - when the neon-flashed South Beach skyline
glows in the warm night and the palm trees sway in the
breeze - when a better-looking city is hard to imagine.
Even so, people, not climate or landscape, are what make
Miami unique. Half of the two million population is
Hispanic, the vast majority Cubans. Spanish is the
predominant language almost everywhere - in many places
it's the only language you'll hear, and you'll be
expected to speak at least a few words - and news from
Havana, Caracas or Managua frequently gets more
attention than the latest word from Washington, DC.
Just a century ago Miami was a swampy outpost of
mosquito-tormented settlers. The arrival of the railroad
in 1896 gave the city its first fixed land-link with the
rest of the continent, and cleared the way for the
Twenties property boom. In the Fifties, Miami Beach
became a celebrity-filled resort area, just as thousands
of Cubans fleeing the regime of Fidel Castro began
arriving in mainland Miami. The Sixties and Seventies
brought decline, and Miami's reputation in the Eighties
as the vice capital of the USA was at least partly
deserved. As the cop show Miami Vice so
glamorously underlined, drug smuggling was endemic; as
well, in 1980 the city had the highest murder rate in
America. Since then, though, much has changed for two
very different reasons. First, the gentrification of
South Beach helped make tourism the lifeblood of the
local economy again in the early Nineties. Second, the
city's determined wooing of Latin America brought rapid
investment, both domestic and international: many US
corporations run their South American operations from
Miami and certain neighborhoods, such as Key Biscayne,
are now home to thriving communities of expat Peruvians,
Colombians and Venezuelans.
The City
Many of Miami's districts are officially cities in their
own right, and each has a background and character very
much its own. Most people head straight to Miami Beach ,
specifically the South Beach strip, where many of...
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Reality matches the myths
in many ways, though. In the middle of the state, Orlando
stands as the undisputed capital of the theme park.
Along the Atlantic coast, Miami simmers with Caribbean
and Latin American flair, and sights such as alligators
in the Everglades and the space shuttle at the Kennedy
Space Center allow you to enjoyably combine education
with vacation.
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