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La regione di Everglades

Per raggiungere da nord i Parchi Nazionali di Biscayne e di Everglades occorre dirigersi verso Homestead – Florida City, percorrendo la U.S. 1. 

Da Homestead per il Biscayne Park seguire la U.S. 1 fino a Lucy Street (SE 8th St.), poi girare verso est su North Canal Drive (SW 328th St.) e seguire le indicazioni per l’ingresso principale del Parco a Convoy Point, per circa 8 miglia. 

Da Homestead al Main Visitors Center di Everglades vi sono 11 miglia, mentre il Visitors Center di Flamingo dista 49 miglia e si raggiunge con la strada principale del Parco. 

Per raggiungere le entrate occidentali del Parco si percorre la US 41 (Tamiami Trail). 

La Greyhound Trailways collega Homestead con l’aeroporto Internazionale di Miami con tre corse giornaliere (non dirette). Vi è inoltre la linea A1 del Metrobus (operativa solo nelle ore di punta dei giorni feriali 6,30-9 e 16-18,30). 

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The more comfortable and practical means in order to travel in Florida are sure the car, as it concurs independently to manage own routes through the region, moreover equipped of optimal practicability. 

If you have intention to only remain to South Beach we advice against, it instead, because the parkings are expensive, make fines a lot easy and in short on foot, in bici or with the rolley, you will be able to enjoy Miami Beach without stress fully.

However, near all the airports, in particular those International of Miamiand in all best hotels are present the main agencies of car rental. To Miami Beach, there is the Avis in Collins Avenue to approximately 30 minuteren on foot from Lincoln Road.

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Original article in Italian language

Sunday of the Palms (Healthy Pascua) of the 1513 navigator Spanish Juan Ponce de Leòn (photo) touched the coast of Florida with its three ships and taken possession of the new territory in the name of the king of Spain calling it Healthy, in honor of the festivity day. In reality de Leon was to the search of the gold and a territory was pushed thus till the Gulf of Mexico, exploring nearly vergine, covered of forests and polulated from aborigines, generally hostile.

In fact they were killed from arrow during a successive one shipment of 1521.

For approximately 50 years they followed other Spanish shipments, some of which tried to fix in the region of the stable takeovers, until a first appropriation of Ugonotti was had French, immediately destroyed to work dell’ admiral Pedro Menéndez de Avilés for order of the king of Spain Filippo II. Menendez, name from the governing king of Florida, was the founder of the most ancient stable takeover in North America, the city of St. Augustine (1565).

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Il Tropical Dèco – Art Deco è espressione francese (abbreviazione di art décoratif) che indica uno stile affermatosi negli anni Venti nel campo delle arti in genere e dell’architettura, consacrato definitivamente dall’ Esposizione lnternazionale di Parigi del 1925.

E’ caratterizzato da linee circonvolute, da simmetrie e stilizzazioni di forme floreali, sia nel campo della grafica e del design, che in quello della moda e dell’arredamento. 

Nato in Francia, il movimento ebbe notevoli espressioni in vari Paesi europei e negli USA, dove assunse particolare rilievo nell’ambito delI’architettura (es. grattacielo Chrysler a New York, 1928). 

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