The world's largest collection of Art Deco architecture — 960+ buildings packed into a few blocks of South Beach. Henry Hohauser designed 300 of them, Versace turned one into a palace, and the white sand beneath your feet was imported from the Bahamas onto a man-made island.

Stops on This Tour (7)

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   Art Deco Welcome Center Start. Ocean Drive at 10th Street. The Art Deco Historic District has 960+ buildings — the largest collection of Art Deco architecture in the world.
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   The Colony Hotel Built 1935. The neon sign is the most photographed on Ocean Drive. Henry Hohauser designed this and 300+ other buildings on the Beach.
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   The Carlyle Hotel Featured in Scarface, The Birdcage, and Bad Boys. The rounded corners and racing stripes are "Streamline Moderne" — Art Deco's sleeker cousin.
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   Versace Mansion (Casa Casuarina) Gianni Versace bought this 1930 apartment building and turned it into a palace. He was murdered on these steps in 1997. Now a luxury hotel.
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   The Breakwater Hotel Classic Deco with the blue-and-white "eyebrow" window shades — designed to block tropical sun. Anton Skislewicz, architect, 1939.
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   Lummus Park Beach The white sand is actually imported from the Bahamas. Miami Beach is a man-made island — dredged from Biscayne Bay in the 1910s by Carl Fisher.
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   Española Way Built in 1925 as an "artists' colony" inspired by Mediterranean villages. Al Capone ran a gambling operation from the second floor of one of these buildings.

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