RELAX & REJUVENATE Take time to bask in the sunshine, let go of the stress and enjoy all that the Sunshine City has to offer. Look for dolphins and manatees. Let your senses take in the colorful tropical landscape. Bring your dog to the park or the dog beach at Fort De Soto Park, named one of the top beaches in the world. Rent a bike and tour the 30+ downtown urban art murals. Join the crowd at the indie markets and the Saturday Morning Market, the largest in the Southeast. Buy local in a city that has a passion for authentic, artistic and hand-crafted. Historic Lore ore St. Petersburg’s g’s colorful past starts with Peter Demens,emens, who brought the Orange Belt Railway Railway here in the late te 1800s and christened christened the city after his hometown of St. Petersburg, Russia. In the Roaring 20s, during Florida’s land boom, St. Pete gained a reputation as a winter resort town and health city. Developers built landmark Mediterranean mansions and hotels, now beautifully restored. Take a walking guided tour with St. Petersburg Preservation stpetepreservation.org. St. Pete’s passion for baseball goes back decades with spring training games that brought legendary greats such as Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and Joe DiMaggio. Albert Whitted Stadium, where they played, is now home to to the Tampa Bay Rowdies wdies soccer team. rowdiessoccer.com Explore Weedon Island, a 3,000 acre preserve with marked ed kayak trails and boardwalks.ks. At the Weedon history center nter learn learn about the thriving community of native Americans s who once inhabited the area. weedonislandpreserve.rve.org. Tampa Bay Rowdies MURAL BY RICKY WATTS. Sunshine Calling 2017-2018 | St. Petersburg’s Visitors Guide 9
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