Cà d’Zan, the former residence of John and Mable Ringling, was recently refurbished and is open for tours.
The city of Sarasota within the county of Sarasota is a sophisticated, casually elegant cosmopolitan cultural center, offering top-drawer entertainment, an outstanding art museum and thriving art community, a long list of gourmet dining opportunities, a vibrant social season, fashionable shopping and first-class accommodations.
The area was originally inhabited 3,000 years ago by Indians. At historic Spanish Point, you can visit the most well-preserved Indian village in Florida, the only place where you can enter a pre-historic shell mound.
During the 1500s, European explorers landed in “La Florida,” with Ponce de Leon, Panfilo Narvaez and Hernando DeSoto among others, seeking treasure along the Gulf Coast.
In the 1880s, the Florida Mortgage and Investment Company promised families in Scotland that they would find fertile land, citrus groves and in-town housing. When the settlers arrived, they found a basic frontier camp – and not much else.
Read the entire article in the January 2005 issue
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