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Forty miles north of Daytona Beach, Hwy-1 passes through the heart
of ST AUGUSTINE . Few places in Florida are as immediately engaging as
this old city, with the size and even some of the looks of a small
Mediterranean town. The oldest permanent settlement in the US, with much
from its early days still intact along its narrow streets, it also
offers two alluring lengths of beach just across the bay.
Ponce de León touched ground here in 1513, but European settlement began
when Spain's Pedro Menéndez de Avilés put ashore on St Augustine's Day
in 1565. Sir Francis Drake's ships razed the town in 1586, the first of
many battles before Florida was eventually ceded to Britain in 1763. By
then the town was a major social and administrative center, soon to be
capital of east Florida. Subsequently, Tallahassee became the capital of
a unified Florida, and St Augustine's fortunes waned. Expansion largely
bypassed the town - a fact inadvertently facilitating the restoration
program that has turned this quiet community into a fine historical
showcase
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Vacation Rentals in St Augustine |
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from $78.82
USD