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The Best Attractions In Sarasota

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Sarasota is a city in Sarasota County on the southwestern coast of the U.S. state of Florida. The area is renowned for its cultural and environmental amenities, beaches, resorts, and the Sarasota School of Architecture. The city is at the southern end of the Tampa Bay Area, north of Fort Myers and Punta Gorda. Its official limits include Sarasota Bay and several barrier islands between the bay and the Gulf of Mexico. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, in 2013 Sarasota had a population of 53,326. In 1986 it became designated as a certified local government. Sarasota is a principal city of the Sarasota metropolitan area, and is the seat of Sarasota Cou...
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The Best Attractions In Sarasota

  • 1. Sarasota National Cemetery Sarasota
    Sarasota County is located in Southwest Florida on the Gulf Coast. As of the 2010 US Census, the population was 379,448. Its county seat is Sarasota and its largest city is North Port with an estimated 2016 population of 64,274. Sarasota County compromises the North Port-Sarasota-Bradenton, FL Metropolitan Statistical Area.
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  • 3. The Ringling Sarasota
    Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, also known as the Ringling Bros. Circus, Ringling Bros. or simply Ringling was an American traveling circus company billed as The Greatest Show on Earth. It and its predecessor shows ran from 1871 to 2017. Known as Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows, the circus started in 1919 when the Barnum & Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth, a circus created by P. T. Barnum and James Anthony Bailey, was merged with the Ringling Bros. World's Greatest Shows. The Ringling brothers had purchased Barnum & Bailey Ltd. following Bailey's death in 1906, but ran the circuses separately until they were merged in 1919. After 1956 the circus no longer exhibited under their own portable big top tents, instead using permanent venues such as sports stadiums and...
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  • 4. St. Armands Circle Sarasota
    St. Armands Key is an island in Sarasota Bay off the west coast of Florida in the United States. It is part of the city of Sarasota, Florida. The island is connected to the mainland by the John Ringling Causeway.
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  • 5. Myakka River State Park Sarasota
    Myakka River State Park is a Florida State Park, that is located nine miles east of Interstate 75 in Sarasota County and a portion of southeastern Manatee County. The state park consists of 37,000 acres , making it one of the state's largest parks. It is also one of the oldest parks in the state. It was delineated in the 1930s by the Civilian Conservation Corps. A small portion of the park was the gift of the family of Bertha Palmer to the state. The park is named after the Myakka River.
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  • 6. Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium Sarasota
    Mote Marine Laboratory is an independent, not-for-profit, marine research organization based on City Island in Sarasota, Florida, with additional campuses in eastern Sarasota County, Boca Grande, Florida, and the Florida Keys. Founded in 1955 by Dr. Eugenie Clark in Placida, Florida, it was known as the Cape Haze Marine Laboratory until 1967. The Lab aims to advance marine science and education, supporting conservation and sustainable use of marine resources. The public Mote Aquarium and associated education program translate Mote research for the public.
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  • 7. University Park Country Club Sarasota
    Florida State University is a public space-grant and sea-grant research university with its primary campus on a 1,428.6 acres campus in Tallahassee, Florida. It is a senior member of the State University System of Florida. Founded in 1851, it is located on the oldest continuous site of higher education in the state of Florida.The university is classified as a Research University with Very High Research by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The university comprises 16 separate colleges and more than 110 centers, facilities, labs and institutes that offer more than 360 programs of study, including professional school programs. The university has an annual budget of over $1.7 billion and an annual economic impact of over $10 billion. Florida State is home to Florida's on...
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  • 8. Legacy Trail Sarasota
    There are several trails in the United States named Legacy Trail. They are the following: Legacy Trail , in Sarasota County, Florida Legacy Trail , in Lexington, Kentucky Legacy Trail , in Norman, Oklahoma
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  • 11. Sarasota Jungle Gardens Sarasota
    Sarasota Jungle Gardens has been a tourist attraction in Sarasota, Florida in the United States since 1939. It offers ten acres, or four hectares, of botanical plantings along with bird and animal shows. One key attraction at the park is the opportunity to hand feed free-roaming flamingos. It is open to the public for a per-use ticket fee, as well as offering yearly membership passes for those wishing to visit frequently. The Gardens includes native species and exotic plants from around the world, such as the Australian nut tree, a bunya-bunya tree, the largest Norfolk Island pine in Florida, bulrush, strangler figs, royal palms, selloums, banana trees, Peruvian apple cactus, and staghorn ferns, as well as native red maples, oaks and bald cypress. In the 1920s, the site had become a swampy...
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  • 12. The Meadows Country Club Sarasota
    The Meadows is a census-designated place in Sarasota County, Florida, United States. The population was 3,994 at the 2010 census. The CDP is part of the Bradenton–Sarasota–Venice Metropolitan Statistical Area.
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  • 14. Nathan Benderson Park Sarasota
    Nathan Benderson Park, previously known as North Metro Park and then Cooper Creek Park, is a 600 acre park that incorporates a 400 acre artificial lake in Sarasota, Florida, USA. The lake was excavated to provide fill for the construction of Interstate 75. The lake is a rowing venue and hosted the 2017 World Rowing Championships.
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  • 15. Payne Park Sarasota
    The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens is the only botanical garden in the world dedicated to the display and study of epiphytes, especially orchids and bromeliads, and their canopy ecosystems, with a focus on botany, horticulture and environmental education. Ongoing research and exploration for tropical plants attracts worldwide attention of international scholars and plant enthusiasts. It is located on the grounds of the former home of Marie and William Selby at 900 South Palm Avenue, in the heart of Sarasota, Florida, United States, and open to the public 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day but Christmas.
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