Our home for the night is the oldest city in Florida, in fact in the USA – St Augustines.
We’re stopping in the delightful Marion Motor Lodge motel just minutes away from the historic heart of the city.
St. Augustine was founded in 1565, by Spanish admiral Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, Florida’s first governor.
It is the oldest continuously inhabited European-established settlement in what is now the contiguous United States.
Here’s the ‘authentically recreated’ historical district.
Most of which has either been heavily restored or moved from other places.
Proving yet again that Florida feels like a stage set rather than a real place!
Saint George Street is where you will find the majority of the bars, shops and eateries. Each with their own ‘olde worlde’ charm.
Even though it’s not entirely authentic, it still is very pretty and worth a wander around.
Above is the oldest wooden school house in the USA. This original building is more than 200 years old and made of red cedar and cypress,
Beautiful Flagler College is a private liberal arts college founded in 1968.
The pretty campus comprises 19 acres, the centerpiece of which is the Ponce de León Hotel, built in 1888 as a luxury hotel.
You can take a tour and discover windows made of Tiffany glass, hand-laid tiles, carved wood and more.
There’s plenty more architectural delights to see in St Augustines which makes it markedly different to the majority of Florida’s rather homogeneous towns.
A fun thing to do is the self service booze at Auggies Draft room. Only buy what you try!!
