A Few Interesting Facts About Florida
- Ponce De Leon named Florida, Spanish Explorer who called it La Florida in honor of Pascua Florida, Spanish Feast of Flowers, in 1513, when he landed on the peninsula and saw the landscape.
- Disney World is over 50 years old!
- NASA, Kennedy Space Center is located on the East Coast of Florida, on Merritt Island.
- Daytona 500: international car racing every February since 1959.
- Florida has the most Art Deco and Streamline Modern buildings in the world.
- Winter, the famous dolphin, lived in Clearwater Marine Aquarium. She lost her tail – and nearly her life- on the East side of Florida when she entangled in a crab trap line. Winter lived there for many years with her rehabilitation and prosthetic tail until Nov. 2021. She has inspired Dolphin Tale -two Hollywood movies. Thousands of visitors came to see her daily.
- The longest continuous sidewalk in the USA ( moreover, it is considered in the world) is in the City of Tampa on Bayshore Boulevard. It is 4.5 miles long with a beautiful bay and downtown view along Hillsborough Bay.
- The Seven-Mile Bridge across the Keys runs parallel to the Atlantic Ocean, part of it designated as a national scenic highway.
- The world’s first passenger airline service operated between St. Petersburg and Tampa from Jan. 1914.
- The endangered manatees like to live in Florida’s warm water.
