Capsule: For sheer excitement, Miami's multicultural melange of people, languages, ethnicities and races makes for a sophisticated urban tempo that is hard to beat. A big city, Miami's flashy skyscrapers combine with Miami Beach's Art Deco treasures to create an architectural display worthy of a major metropolis.

Waterfront Homes: The greater Miami area offers a seemingly boundless variety of choices in luxury waterfront living.

On Miami Beach, from South Beach to Bal Harbour, luxury condominiums line the oceanfront, with luxury private homes largely found on the Intracoastal waterway.

On Key Biscayne, luxury condos offer dramatic ocean vistas while luxury homes tend to provide spectacular views of the Miami skyline across Biscayne Bay.

Between Miami Beach and Miami, magnificent homes and estates, running the architectural gamut from Spanish-Mediterranean to modern, can be found on private islands accessible from several of the causeways.

In downtown Miami, luxury condos featuring breathtaking Bay and /or city views line Brickell Avenue. In Coral Gables, private waterfront communities like the 200-acre Gables Estates provide boaters with direct access to Biscayne Bay with no bridges.

Golf and Tennis: Miami offers some challenging golf courses in beautiful surroundings. The golf courses at the Doral Resort and Spa are among the best known. The Biltmore Hotel has an 18-hole par-71 course which dates back to 1925. On Key Biscayne, Crandon Park Golf Course, situated on the bay, is ranked as one of the top five public courses in the country.

The Tennis Center at Crandon Park, which in the spring hosts the Ericsson Open tennis championships, features 17 Laykold hard courts, four European red clay, four American green clay courts and two grass courts.

Weather: Sunny almost every day, the average January low is only 58.7 and the average July high is 89.9. Rainfall is generally brief, yet it rains -- at least a little -- about 129 days of the year.

Culture & Sports: As home to the Florida Grand Opera, the New World Symphony, the Florida Philharmonic Orchestra and the Jackie Gleason Theater of the Performing Arts, Miami’s cultural life is vibrant indeed.

The only city in Florida to boast of teams in all four major professional sports, Miami is proud of the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League; the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association, the Florida Panthers of the National Hockey League and the Florida Marlins of Major League Baseball.

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