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4 Biscayne Bay excursions, and a tall- ship cruise.
Boat Trips Duck Tours take place on an
amphibious vehicle that departs
Map D3. Bayside Marketplace. several times a day from South
q College/Bayside. @ 3, 16, A (101), Beach, just off Lincoln Road.
C (103), S (119), 11, 120 Beach MAX, 93 The tour takes in points of interest
Biscayne MAX. Island Queen Cruises: in South Beach and heads into
(305) 379-5119. Duck Tours: (305) 673- Miami before “splashing” into
2217. All other tour boats: (305) 577- Biscayne Bay for a closer look at the
3344. ∑ islandqueencruises.com homes of the rich and famous on Miami-Dade Cultural Center,
Star Island. Bayside Marketplace is in downtown Miami
A leisurely way to view the a fun complex with several shops,
sprinkling of exclusive private bars, and restaurants, including 6 Miami-Dade
island communities around the Hard Rock Café, complete with Cultural Center
Biscayne Bay is to take one of a guitar erupting from its roof.
the many cruises from Bayside Bayfront Park is nearby. At its Map D3. 101 West Flagler St.
Marketplace. Tours, such as center is the Torch of Friendship, q Government Center. @ all buses
“Millionaire’s Row” run by Island commemorating John F. Kennedy, to Miami Ave. HistoryMiami: Tel (305)
Queen Cruises, leave regularly surrounded by the coats of arms 375-1492. Open 10am–5pm Mon–Sat,
and last about 90 minutes. of Central and South American noon–5pm Sun. & 7 Main Public
Library: Open Mon–Sat.
Tours begin by sailing past coun tries; a plaque from the
Dodge and Lummus islands, city’s exiled Cuban community Designed by the celebrated
where the world’s busiest cruise thanks the US for allowing them American architect Philip
port is situated. This port, which to settle here. Johnson in 1982, the Miami-
contributes an annual income of Dade Cultural Center is a large
more than $5 billion to the local complex, with a Mediterranean-
economy, handles more than three 5 Museum Park style central courtyard and
million cruise passengers a year. Map D3. Biscayne Boulevard fountains. It includes a museum
Near the eastern end of q Museum Park. @ 2, 3, 11, 35, 103, and library. The Museum of
MacArthur Causeway is the US 119, 137, 207, Night Owl. Pérez Art HistoryMiami concentrates
Coastguard’s fleet of high-speed Museum Miami: 1103 Biscayne on pre-1945 Miami. Besides
craft. Opposite lies the unbridged Boulevard. Tel (305) 375-3000. displays on the Spanish
Fisher Island, separated from South Open 10am–6pm Tue–Sun (to 9pm colonization and Seminole
Beach by Government Cut, a water Thu). ∑ pamm.org Patricia and culture, there is a fascinating
channel dredged in 1905. Named Phillip Frost Museum of Science: collection of old photographs.
after Carl Fisher, the developer of 3280 S Miami Ave. Tel (305) 646-4400. These bring to life Miami’s early
Miami Beach, the island is an ∑ frostscience.org history, from the hardships
exclusive residential enclave and endured by the early pioneers to
resort with prices beginning This large park houses the Pérez the fun-filled Roaring Twenties.
around $1 million. The tour Art Museum Miami, and the
continues north around the man- Patricia and Phillip Frost
made Star, Palm, and Hibiscus Museum of Science. The Pérez 7 Downtown
islands, where real estate lots were museum’s collection consists of Map D3. q various stations. US
sometimes sold “by the gallon.” 20th-century and contemporary Federal Courthouse: 301 N Miami Ave.
Among the lavish mansions are international art, with an Tel (305) 523-5100. q Arena/State
the former homes of Frank Sinatra emphasis on art of the Americas. Plaza. Open 8am–5pm Mon–Fri.
and Al Capone, as well as the The Frost Museum of Science Closed public hols. 7
present abodes of stars such as opened in the summer of
Gloria Estefan and Julio Iglesias. 2016, and the white globe of When the development of
Other boat trips include night- its planetarium is a landmark Miami took off with the arrival
time cruises, deep-sea fishing on the Miami skyline. of the Florida East Coast Railway
in 1896, the early city focused
on one square mile (2.5 km) on
the banks of the Miami River.
Today, this is the site of present
downtown and the hub of the
city’s financial district. Its
futuristic skyscrapers are a
monument to the banking
boom of the 1980s, when the
city emerged as a major
financial and trade center.
The raised track of the Metro-
One of the lavish mansions seen during a Biscayne Bay boat tour mover, a driverless shuttle
For hotels and restaurants in this region see pp326–8 and pp329–31

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