Tampa Museum of Art

The Tampa Museum of Art opened its spectacular 66,000-square-foot Cornelia Corbett Center in February 2010 to critical and public acclaim. Since opening in its new home, the museum has emerged as a center of the artistic life in the region. ...

Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo

Recognized as the #1 Zoo in the U.S. by Parents magazine (2009) and Child magazine (2004), Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo features 1,000 animals on nearly 56 acres of natural habitats. Guests will find many interactive exhibits and opportunities to get ...

Tampa Theatre

The theater rebuilt its audience with a canny mix of art-house fare sprinkled with general-interest favorites.

For Cindy Liss, it's the gasps.

"I love that gasp from first-time visitors," says Liss, who leads tours of the Tampa Theatre, the renowned and venerable ...

Grapefruit League- Charlotte Sports Park- Tampa Bay Rays

HEARING AN UMPIRE CALL “PLAY BALL!” IS NOTHING NEW IN FLORIDA. MAJOR LEAGUE SPRING TRAINING BEGAN HERE IN 1888, WHEN THE WASHINGTON STATESMEN

(LATER THE WASHINGTON SENATORS) VISITED JACKSONVILLE TO PLAY A SERIES OF PRE-SEASON EXHIBITION GAMES.

FLORIDA BECAME A ...

Grapefruit League- Plant Field, Tampa

Hearing an umpire call “play ball!” is nothing new in Florida. Major league spring training began here in 1888, when the Washington Statesmen (later the Washington Senators) visited Jacksonville to play a series of pre-season exhibition games.

Florida became a popular ...

National Historic Landmark - Tampa Bay Hotel

Headquarters of the army that invaded Cuba in the Spanish-American War (1898), and the news center for journalists participating in the "Correspondents War." The hotel was a pioneer effort in the Florida resort business, and is an excellent example of ...

National Historic Landmark - El Centro Espanol de Tampa

An impressive example of Spanish, Moorish and French Renaissance influenced architecture, this massive masonry building dramatically illustrates the role of ethnic social and mutual assistance organizations in the daily life of immigrant populations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth ...

St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church - Tampa

The St. Paul AME congregation dates back to 1870. The original church structure, a brick vernacular building with Gothic and Romanesque detailing, was erected in downtown Tampa between 1906 and 1917. With its large sanctuary, balcony and basement, this church ...

Fort Brooke Battery University of Tampa

Mounted in Plant Park are two Civil War 24-pounder cannons, which were originally part of a Confederate battery at Fort Brooke. In 1891, while constructing the Tampa Bay Hotel, Henry B. Plant had the cannons salvaged from the Fort Brooke ...

Confederate Monument - Tampa

Originally located on the grounds of the Old Hillsborough County Courthouse, the monument was erected in 1911 by the United Daughters of the Confederacy.

In 1952, the monument was moved to its current location upon the completion of the new courthouse ...