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Lets Swashbuckle In St. Augustine
It is not accurate to dub St. Augustine, Florida as America's most ancient city. Native American mound cities in the Upper Midwest and the Anasazi Pueblo cities of southwestern Colorado predate St. Augustine by several hundred years, as do Mexico City and the ancient Mayan city of Tikal further south. However, St. Augustine was the first permanent, declared European community in what is now the United States, established only a little more than seventy years after Columbus' historic voyage.
As you may expect, there is a lot in this region for the history fan, from the ruins of the original fort to the old town neighborhoods with colonial Spanish architecture and several museums. With an abundance of quaint, historic bed breakfasts, you and your family will have no trouble establishing a cozy base of operations for your St. Augustine holiday vacation.
It was actually 1513 when explorer Ponce de Leon, then governor of what is now Puerto Rico, landed in the expanse, claiming it for King Ferdinand of Castile and Queen Isabella of Aragon as Spain was not an actually unified kingdom until 1516. Converse to common belief, he was not searching for a "Fountain of Youth" but more tangible wares such as gold, slaves and land. It was decades before a stable community would be established.
Once you and your family are contentedly booked in one of St. Augustine's fine bed and breakfasts or beach vacation rentals, you will uncover enough activities and attractions to last a lifetime ranging from outdoor sports and instructive trips to sheer enjoyment and fun. Get started by exploring some of the vicinity as the initial residents and early Spanish explorers saw it with St. Augustine Eco Tours, voted the number one experience among tourists. Traveling by kayak, you will see salt marshes and wetlands and might even witness natural dolphins at play. And even though it's vacation time, you can keep the children learning with Sheriff's Historical Tours, which leads you through 350 years of St. Augustine's history. Another piece of St. Augustine history worth seeing is El Castillo de San Marcos, an early Spanish military installation dating from the late 1600s.
Of course, the history of St. Augustine, like so many areas in the state, is closely tied to the Golden Age of the Pirates of the Caribbean who commonly made forays up the Florida coast. Children of all ages will like to climb aboard the Black Raven for a feel of shipboard life on a 17th-Century privateer.
Budding herpetologists will get a kick out of discovering the last living relations of the prehistoric dinosaurs up-close and personal at the St. Augustine Alligator Farm which contains much more than just alligators. This is just a small example of what awaits you and your family in this beautiful town filled with sunshine most of the year.
