Florida [antikvár]

Introduction For a destination known throughout the world for its beaches and theme parks, the 'real' Florida surprises and astounds those who set out to find it. On just the other side of massive attractions like Disney World, Miami's South Beach and the Kennedy Space Center, travelers in Florida have the opportunity to see some of the most beautiful, rugged, challenging and bizarre natural attractions in the USA. And it's accessible. The real Florida is where you'll be if you stay on the turnpike one extra exit in any direction from Orlando, Miami, Tampa or any other major city - off the beaten path in a state where a designated historic district can be as young as 50 years old or older than 400. You can get away from tourist traps in a state that was developed specifically for tourists, and be off on your own in the land of Crackers, anglers and alligators, manatees and mangroves, sink holes, springs and swamps. The first European settlement in the New World was right here in St Augustine, by the Spanish in 1565, and over the next 300 years Florida found itself at the epicenter of a struggle for control of the New World. With British at the north and French at the west, the world's three superpowers skirmished constantly - and when America became a power of its own, it too joined the fight over the continent's tropical paradise. In the end, Florida was ceded to the US by a Spain that was taking beatings around the world, one of the last feathers in the cap of a now creaky superpower has-been. It was their fault, really, for not attempting to settle the area more aggressively. If the