15-acre botanical garden. This is only botanical garden in the world dedicated to the display and study of epiphytic orchids, bromeliads, gesneriads and ferns, and other tropical plants.
Our favorite restaurant. Excellent lunch/dinner & bar in Downtown Sarasota
Wine on tap! Cheese and meat plates. Few craft brews
Casual, beachy spot with a covered patio offering seafood & bar fare, draft beer & live music. We recommend: Coconut Margarita. Grouper Bites. Oysters.
Drum circle on Sundays Ranked the #1 Beach in the U.S. in 2020 by TripAdvisor’s Traveler’s Choice Awards
Art museum, circus museum, and Ca' d'Zan, the Ringlings' mansion. 21 galleries of European paintings as well as Cypriot antiquities and Asian, American, and contemporary art.
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