Sarasota Florida

Sarasota FL

Tourists find the rolling beaches of white sand and sparkling water quite alluring when they visit Sarasota, Florida and the island cluster that makes up Sarasota.  Visitors have plenty of opportunity to relax while at Sarasota, Longboat Key, Lido/St. Armands Circle, Siesta Key, Casey Key, Venice, Manasota Key, Englewood and North Port.

Sarasota is favored as the gem of the Florida Gulf Coast region, and visitors come throughout the year to these ocean beachfront landscapes to find these islands that are sun drenched and encased by 35 miles of silky beachfront sand.  Sarasota and her Island offer many exhilarating attractions to see, and tourists always enjoy all of the activities immensely.  Photo Left: Beach View Sarasota Florida

As the center of the Theatre and Arts District, Sarasota offers tourists a world of culture in the area surrounding Main Street, which is used often for art festivals.  Restaurants are plentiful in this area of Sarasota and her Islands,  and tourist can enjoy a Farmers Market on Saturday mornings. 

There are retro collectible shops down the street at Pineapple Avenue, and people love visiting Palm Avenue’s fine art galleries. Burns Courts is an imaginative place that features 1920’s independent film styling and people come there to watch the artists perform their work at Towles Court.

Tourists are afforded a naturalists dreamland in the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens which is ornamented with colorful bromeliads, exotic orchids, and tropical plant life such as bamboo.  They can immerse themselves in the lush grassland environment found at Myakka River State Park and the Sarasota Jungle Gardens.  The Jungle Walk at History Spanish Point thrill children throughout the year.

The beautiful landscapes surrounding Myakka River State Park allow visitors to enjoy a day canoeing down this marvelous waterway.  Children are afforded quite a bit of fun when they seek out the Ringling Circus Museum and perhaps, feel like a true clown for a small while.  Parents and children alike can enjoy the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art and feel an awe from the direct viewing of fine works of art, and by seeing the world’s largest miniature circus.

For the more active tourists, Sarasota offers kayaking on Sarasota Bay or a splashing good time can be found for the entire family at the Steigerwald/Jockey Park at Island Park.  Families can visit the Ed Smith Stadium, and see the Cincinnati Reds enjoy pitching practice and other maneuvers during Spring Training exercises. 

By March, the 7,500 seat Ed Smith Stadium is enjoying the crack of the bat as the baseball club’s Spring season gets into full swing.  Tourists can obtain autographs and photographs of their favorite players and enjoy major league baseball at its finest.  There is a distinctive amount of fun to be had by visiting a team that is undergoing their annual Spring training.

Other Major League baseball teams that hold their Spring training in and around the Sarasota area are the Pittsburgh Pirates, in Bradenton, the Toronto Blue Jays in Dunedin, the New York Yankees in Tampa, the Philadelphia Phillies in Clearwater, the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in St. Petersburg, the Detroit Lions, in Lakeland and the Minnesota Twins and the Boston Red Sox in Fort Myers.

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