Ponce de Leon's Fountain of Youth Archaeological Park

Within the boundaries of the park, St. Augustine, the oldest continuously occupied European settlement in the continental United States began. In the early 1900s, the property owner began charging admission to drink from spring waters located on the property, and ...

Plaza de la Constitucion

The Plaza de la Constitucion is a reminder of the brief time in 1813 that Spain had a constitutional government. In the center of the Plaza is the Monumento de la Constitucion. Many such monuments were built in 1813, but ...

Dow Museum of Historic Houses, Old St. Augustine Village

Florida Spanish Colonial Heritage Trail

Step back in time and enjoy the St. Augustine legacy of avid collector Kenneth Dow. Explore period decorated historic houses and galleries nestled among courtyards and gardens. The nine houses are original to the site and ...

Old Florida Museum

This hands-on museum has exhibits and opportunities that allow guests to participate in daily living activities from pre-European times to the 1900s. The Spanish Fort Mose program includes candle making, rope making, colonial games, corn grinding, woodworking, and other activities ...

Fort Matanzas National Monument

This National Monument commemorates the killing of nearly 250 French Huguenots by the Spanish, an act that gave the river and inlet the name Matanzas, Spanish for "slaughters." Spanish officials built a fort at the site 175 years later to ...

Colonial Spanish Quarter

Encompassing a city block, visitors to the Colonial Spanish Quarter Museum experience a time when St. Augustine was a remote outpost of the Spanish Empire. Through its surroundings and costumed living history interpreters, the Colonial Spanish Quarter illustrates the life ...

Cathedral Basilica

The Cathedral Basilica of St. Augustine is home to the oldest Catholic parish in the United States. Parish records date back to at least 1596; any earlier records would have been destroyed by fire in 1586, when Sir Francis Drake ...

Castillo de San Marcos

A few years after Menendez founded St. Augustine in 1565, a wooden fort was built near the site of the present Castillo. Since Spain controlled Florida, officials initially saw no reason to build strong forts there. In the years that ...

Plaza Fernandina / Old Town Fernandina

Old Town Fernandina was laid out by the Spanish in 1811, and was the last town in the Western Hemisphere to be platted by the Laws of the Indies developed by the Spanish government to guide settlement and town planning ...

Mala Compra

Four miles south of Marineland is the site of an archaeological project to excavate and preserve the remains of Mala Compra, the 19th century plantation belonging to the nation's first Hispanic Congressman and first Delegate from the territory of Florida, ...