St. Augustine Audio Walking Tour

Highlights

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  Castillo de San Marcos

  Coquina walls of the Castillo de San Marcos rise ahead of you. This is the oldest masonry fort in the continental United States, anchored on the western shore of Matanzas Bay in St. Augustine, Florida.

• Flagler College

  Flagler College is a private liberal arts campus here in St. Augustine. The school was founded in 1968 and today offers 44 undergraduate majors and two master's programs.

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  Cathedral Basilica of St. Augustine

  Catedral basílica de San Agustín is the Spanish name for the Cathedral Basilica of St. Augustine, which faces you here on Cathedral Place. This is the historic cathedral and the seat of the Catholic Bishop of St. Augustine.

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  Ponce de León Hotel

  Henry Flagler's Hotel Ponce de Leon, known simply as The Ponce, opened as a luxury winter resort in St. Augustine, Florida. Built by millionaire developer and Standard Oil co-founder Henry M. Flagler between 1885 and 1887, the winter resort opened in January 1888.

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  St. Augustine Light

  Look up at the St. Augustine Light Station, a privately maintained, active lighthouse on Anastasia Island's north end. The current lighthouse stands at the north end of Anastasia Island and was built between 1871 and 1874.

All 36 stops

• St. Augustine Light (Anastasia Island)

  Look up at the St. Augustine Light Station, a privately maintained, active lighthouse on Anastasia Island's north end.

• Clapp Octagon House (Lighthouse Park)

  Picture Rollin N. Clapp's eight-sided home rising here in 1886, on the north end of Anastasia Island.

• Bridge of Lions (Downtown St. Augustine)

  Notice the double-leaf bascule bridge spanning the Intracoastal Waterway between downtown and Anastasia Island.

• Matanzas Bay (St. Augustine)

  Matanzas Bay spreads in front of you here in St. Johns County, Florida, where the South Atlantic pushes in through the St. Augustine inlet.

• Castillo de San Marcos (Matanzas Bay)

  Coquina walls of the Castillo de San Marcos rise ahead of you.

• The King's Bakery (St. Francis Barracks)

  Bread for British troops baked here at the King's Bakery, a coquina structure raised during the British period of 1763 to 1783.

• St. Francis Barracks (St. Augustine)

  Franciscan friars raised the coquina walls of St. Francis Barracks between 1724 and 1755, naming the place for St. Francis of Assisi.

• Tolomato Cemetery (St. Augustine)

  Tolomato Cemetery lies along Cordova Street, a Catholic burial ground on the site of a Franciscan mission village.

• Government House (Plaza de la Constitución)

  Government House has faced the Plaza de la Constitución from 48 King Street since about 1710.

• Cathedral Basilica of St. Augustine (St. Augustine)

  Catedral basílica de San Agustín is the Spanish name for the Cathedral Basilica of St. Augustine, which faces you here on Cathedral Place.

• Trinity Parish (Plaza (Downtown St. Augustine))

  Trinity Parish holds the corner of King and St. George Street on the plaza in downtown St. Augustine, the oldest Protestant church in Florida.

• Ponce de León Hotel (St. Augustine)

  Henry Flagler's Hotel Ponce de Leon, known simply as The Ponce, opened as a luxury winter resort in St. Augustine, Florida.

• Flagler College (St. Augustine)

  Flagler College is a private liberal arts campus here in St. Augustine.

• Lightner Museum (Downtown St. Augustine)

  Inside the historic Hotel Alcazar in downtown St. Augustine you will find the Lightner Museum.

• Casa Monica Hotel (downtown St. Augustine)

  Ahead of you rises the Casa Monica Hotel.

• Markland (King Street)

  Markland, the Andrew Anderson House, is a coquina mansion in St. Augustine, Florida.

• Villa Zorayda (King Street)

  Villa Zorayda has held its place on King Street since Franklin W. Smith built it as his winter home in 1883.

• Colonial Quarter (St. Augustine)

  The Colonial Quarter carried a longer name once: the Colonial Spanish Quarter.

• González-Alvarez House (St. Augustine)

  Clapboarded wood over coquina gives the González–Álvarez House, known as The Oldest House, the two-story shape you see on St. Francis Street.

• Oldest Wooden Schoolhouse (St. Augustine)

  Tax records first name the Oldest Wooden School House in 1716, and here it is at 14 St. George Street near the city gate.

• De Mesa-Sánchez House (St. George Street)

  Antonio De Mesa, a Royal Treasury guard, made this one-room coquina house his family's shelter around 1740, and you know it now as the De…

• Ximenez-Fatio House (Old Town)

  Aviles Street was once called Hospital Street, and along it sits the Ximenez-Fatio House Museum, just south of St. Augustine's Plaza de la Constitución.

• Potter's Wax Museum (St. Augustine)

  Orange Street holds Potter's Wax Museum, the first wax museum in the United States.

• Blacksmith Shop (St. Augustine)

  Charlotte Street gives you the Old Blacksmith Shop, a reconstruction of an outbuilding recorded here in 1771.

• Spanish Military Hospital Museum (St. Augustine)

  Step into the Spanish Military Hospital on Aviles Street, where Second Spanish Period medicine is brought back to life.

• Old St. Johns County Jail (St. Augustine)

  Here on San Marco Avenue in St. Augustine is the Old Jail, designed and built in 1891.

• Arrivas House (St. George Street)

  Down St. George Street at number 46 is the Arrivas House, the first completed restoration project of the Historic St. Augustine Preservation Board, or HSAPB.

• Avero House (St. Augustine Historic District)

  Only 30 houses in St. Augustine's historic district pre-date 1821, and the Avero House at 41 St. George Street is one of them.

• Llambias House (St. Augustine)

  Saint Francis Street carries the Llambias House, known in local history as the Fernandez-Llambias House.

• Solla-Carcaba Cigar Factory (Lincolnville Historic District)

  At 88 Riberia Street sits the Solla-Carcaba Cigar Factory, also known as the Pamies-Arango Cigar Factory, the last of its kind in St. Augustine.

• Lincolnville Museum and Cultural Center (Lincolnville)

  Martin Luther King Avenue holds the Lincolnville Museum and Cultural Center in the former Excelsior School.

• St. Benedict the Moor School (Lincolnville Historic District)

  Brick walls at 86 Martin Luther King Avenue hold St. Benedict the Moor School, in the Lincolnville Historic District of St. Augustine, Florida.

• Fountain of Youth Archaeological Park (Hospital Creek)

  Hospital Creek, part of the Intracoastal Waterway, runs along the Fountain of Youth Archaeological Park, where local lore places a 1513 landing by Ponce de…

• Nombre de Dios (St. Augustine)

  West of Matanzas Bay you find Mission Nombre de Dios, founded as a Catholic mission in 1587.

• National Shrine of Our Lady of La Leche (Nombre de Dios)

  Within the Nombre de Dios Mission in St. Augustine, Florida, rises the National Shrine of Our Lady of La Leche, built in 1609.

• Huguenot Cemetery (St. Augustine)

  Just across from the historic City Gate lies the Huguenot Cemetery, also called the St. Augustine Public Burying Ground.

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