Once little more than a trading station, this Florida port is now the major staging post for the Americas. Whether you want to laze or live it up, Paul Wade shows you how to make the most of the city.
Although thousands of British visitors fly in to Miami to holiday in southern Florida, the international airport is also a major staging post for holidaymakers flying on to the Caribbean and South America, as well as thousands more boarding cruise liners in Miami and Fort Lauderdale. About a 10-hour flight from Britain, Greater Miami is a fast-growing mixture of business-like skyscrapers and funky hotels, laid-back tropical days and non-stop night life. There is nowhere else like it in North America
Barely 100 years old, Miami was little more than a trading post until the east-coast railroad arrived in 1896. At first, affluent snowbirds from the northern states came for the winter sunshine, buying Mediterranean-style homes from developers in Coral Gables and Coconut Grove. In the 1930s and 1940s, the action moved to the long sandy barrier island of Miami Beach. Today's pastel-coloured art deco buildings are the legacy of that boom
Source:http://www.telegraph.co.uk
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