Italian gardens
Geometric paths.
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A villa and gardens on Biscayne Bay in Miami's Coconut Grove, once the winter home of the businessman James Deering. The villa was built between 1914 and 1922 in the Mediterranean Revival style with Baroque touches, inspired by Italian villas of the Veneto and Tuscany. Deering began building in 1912 and moved in on Christmas Day 1916, arriving on his yacht. The villa cost $15 million and is now a museum of rooms furnished with European antiques and furniture. Vizcaya's glory is its extensive Italian gardens, with geometric paths, clipped hedges, pools, fountains and stone cascades, and the ornate Stone Barge facing the bay in front of the house, along with native woodland and a village of outbuildings. Adult tickets are about $25, per visitor guides, and it is open daily except Tuesdays, 9:30–16:30, per its official site. The gardens include some classical statues; mornings are loveliest, before the midday heat.
Geometric paths.
On the bay.
And pools.
Coconut Grove, on Biscayne Bay, Miami
On Tuesdays; other days it opens 9:30–16:30, per its official site.