Tampa Audio Walking Tour

Highlights

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  Ybor City

  Ybor City begins here, a historic neighborhood just northeast of downtown Tampa. In the 1880s this place was founded by Vicente Martinez Ybor and other cigar manufacturers, who brought thousands of immigrants from Cuba, Spain, and Italy.

• University of Tampa

  Moorish minarets rise over Plant Hall here at the University of Tampa, known officially as UTampa and once nicknamed UT or Tampa U, a private university accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools that today offers more than 200 programs of study, including 19 master's degrees. But look up - Plant Hall was not always a campus building.

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  SS American Victory

  Here in Tampa, Florida's Channel District the SS American Victory is preserved as the main feature of the American Victory Ship & Museum. Built at the California Shipbuilding Yard in Los Angeles and launched after just 55 days, she was completed in June 1945 and entered service in the final months of World War II in the Pacific Theater of Operations.

• Columbia Restaurant

  Columbia Restaurant occupies an entire city block here in Ybor City, Tampa, Florida. This is the oldest continuously operated restaurant in Florida and the oldest Spanish restaurant in the United States.

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  Bayshore Boulevard

  Notice the waterfront road around you, Bayshore Boulevard on Hillsborough Bay in South Tampa, just south of downtown Tampa. Beneath your feet is a 4.5-mile, 10-foot-wide sidewalk — the second longest continuous sidewalk in the United States, after Seawall Boulevard in Galveston, Texas.

All 28 stops

• Bayshore Boulevard (South Tampa)

  Notice the waterfront road around you, Bayshore Boulevard on Hillsborough Bay in South Tampa, just south of downtown Tampa.

• Hyde Park (Hyde Park)

  Hyde Park spreads out along Bayshore Boulevard, a historic Tampa neighborhood of bungalows whose ZIP code is 33606.

• University of Tampa (Tampa)

  Moorish minarets rise over Plant Hall here at the University of Tampa, known officially as UTampa and once nicknamed UT or Tampa U, a private…

• Henry B. Plant Museum (University of Tampa)

  Inside the south wing of Plant Hall, at 401 West Kennedy Boulevard, you'll find the Henry B. Plant Museum on the University of Tampa campus.

• Old School House (University of Tampa)

  Back in 1858 General Jesse Carter built this selective school for girls, the Old School House now on the University of Tampa campus.

• Plant Field (Tampa)

  Plant Field stretches out ahead of you.

• Tampa Theatre (Downtown Tampa)

  Tampa Theatre has been a historic U.S. theater and city landmark in Downtown Tampa since it opened in 1926.

• Tampa City Hall (Tampa)

  At 315 East John F. Kennedy Boulevard rises Tampa City Hall, a historic site in Tampa, Florida.

• Curtis Hixon Park (Waterfront Arts District)

  Wide grassy terraces slope toward the Hillsborough River at Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park, the 8-acre downtown Tampa park that opened in its current configuration in…

• Tampa Museum of Art (downtown Tampa)

  Downtown Tampa's Riverwalk carries you to the Tampa Museum of Art.

• Glazer Children’s Museum (Downtown River Arts)

  Next to the Tampa Museum of Art and Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park, alongside the Tampa Riverwalk, sits the Glazer Children's Museum, a non-profit children's museum…

• Tampa Riverwalk (Downtown Tampa)

  Along the Hillsborough River runs the Tampa Riverwalk, a 2.6-mile-long open space and pedestrian trail.

• Tampa Bay History Center (Channelside District)

  Since January 17, 2009 the Tampa Bay History Center has held the waterfront at 801 Water Street in Tampa's Channelside District.

• SS American Victory (Channel District)

  Here in Tampa, Florida's Channel District the SS American Victory is preserved as the main feature of the American Victory Ship & Museum.

• Florida Aquarium (Channel District)

  More than 7,000 aquatic plants and animals fill the Florida Aquarium in Tampa's Channel District.

• Ybor City (Ybor City)

  Ybor City begins here, a historic neighborhood just northeast of downtown Tampa.

• Ybor City Historic District (Ybor City)

  Pronounced EE-bor, the Ybor City Historic District became a U.S. National Historic Landmark District on December 14, 1990.

• Ybor City Museum State Park (Ybor City)

  At 1818 9th Avenue the former Ferlita Bakery, originally La Joven Francesca, now houses the Ybor City Museum State Park in the Ybor City Historic…

• El Pasaje (Ybor City)

  El Pasaje, also known as the Cherokee Club, is the two-story brick building on this corner of Ybor City.

• Columbia Restaurant (Ybor City)

  Columbia Restaurant occupies an entire city block here in Ybor City, Tampa, Florida.

• La Segunda Bakery (Ybor City)

  Cuban bread and pastries come out of La Segunda Central Bakery, in the historic neighborhood of Ybor City in Tampa.

• El Centro Español de Tampa (Ybor City)

  Red brick rises at 1526–1536 East 7th Avenue, where El Centro Español de Tampa has anchored Spanish immigrant life in Ybor City since 1912.

• Circulo Cubano de Tampa (Ybor City)

  Palm Avenue meets 14th Street at El Círculo Cubano de Tampa, also known as the Cuban Club.

• Centro Asturiano de Tampa (Ybor City)

  Tampa-based architect M. Leo Elliott designed the Centro Asturiano de Tampa at 1913 Nebraska Avenue, honored on July 24, 1974 with placement on the U.S.…

• L'Unione Italiana (Ybor City)

  L'Unione Italiana, the Italian Club, occupies 1731 East Seventh Avenue in Ybor City.

• Ybor Factory Building (Ybor City)

  Three stories of brick fill 1911 North 13th Street, the Ybor Factory Building.

• The Ritz Ybor (Ybor City)

  The Ritz Ybor opened as the Rivoli Theatre in 1917, a red brick house in the heart of historic Ybor City.

• Rialto Theatre (Upper North Franklin Street Commercial District)

  On Tampa's Franklin Street the Rialto Theatre anchors a block that drew a March 19, 2010 nomination in the Tampa Bay Times for listing in…

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