Miami's old port became its festival lawn, museum campus and occasional racetrack. Bicentennial Park at 1075 Biscayne Boulevard - renamed Maurice A. Ferre Park in 2019 for the six-term mayor - opened in 1976 on 30 bayfront acres that had served as the Port of Miami from the early 1900s until the docks moved to Dodge Island in the mid-1960s. Named for the national bicentennial, the park spent its early decades as downtown's troubled second green space before its event calendar and a museum-distri.....

Miami's grandest arts complex keeps its most flexible stage hidden inside the opera house. The Carnival Studio Theater is the black-box venue of the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts at 1300 Biscayne Boulevard, the 570,000-square-foot Cesar Pelli-designed complex - conceived as Miami-Dade County's Lincoln Center - that opened in 2006 with the Ziff Ballet Opera House and Knight Concert Hall as its twin flagships. The Studio lives within the Ziff building, entered from Biscayne Bouleva.....

The only club in America where the party legally never has to stop was built on two blocks of downtown Miami nobody else wanted. Club Space at 34 Northeast 11th Street opened in March 2000, the vision of Miami native Louis Puig, who spent three months lobbying city commissioners to designate a two-by-two block slice of the derelict Park West district as a 24-hour entertainment zone with round-the-clock liquor licences. New York legend Danny Tenaglia christened the decks at the original 142 NE 11.....

When Club Space wants to throw a party too big for its own terrace, this is where it goes. Factory Town, at 4800 NW 37th Avenue in Hialeah, is the sprawling open-air compound assembled by the Club Space and Link Miami Rebels team on the grounds of a former mattress factory - acres of warehouses, yards and industrial sheds northwest of Miami proper, converted into the city's heavyweight venue for electronic music at scale. The site came alive in the early 2020s as Miami's dance scene outgrew its.....

Miami's best-kept nightlife secret hides inside its most famous club. Floyd, at 34 Northeast 11th Street in downtown Miami, occupies an intimate room within the Club Space building - a 21st-century speakeasy bathed in red light, with the DJ booth planted in the middle of the floor and no stage at all: acts perform at eye level, surrounded by the crowd. The room emerged in the mid-2010s as the Space and Link Miami Rebels team - the operators who turned the 24-hour district around Northeast 11th .....

Devoted to the layered story of South Florida and the Caribbean, HistoryMiami Museum is the region's leading institution for local history and a Smithsonian affiliate. Tracing its roots to a historical society founded in 1940, the museum occupies a prominent building in the downtown cultural plaza designed by the noted architect Philip Johnson, its arches and open courtyard offering a Mediterranean-inspired refuge in the city centre. The permanent galleries chart the area's history from its ear.....

Eighty-four doors, each weighing between 4 and 11 tons, swing open and shut around the room to tune it like an instrument. The John S. and James L. Knight Concert Hall, the 2,200-seat music hall of the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts at 1300 Biscayne Boulevard in downtown Miami, may be the most complete acoustic vision the legendary Russell Johnson ever realised. The hall opened with the Center on 5 October 2006 - Gloria Estefan, Jeb Bush, Andy Garcia and Bernadette Peters in atte.....

The sign was already there - a worn-out relic of a Central American dive bar - and the new owner liked it too much to take it down. Las Rosas, at 2898 NW 7th Avenue in Miami's Allapattah neighbourhood, became the city's defining rock-and-roll dive: a graffiti-walled, neon-rose-lit venue that the New York Times would eventually anoint a slice of Miami subculture. Cesar Morales - the operator behind Wynwood staples Wood Tavern and The Bar Next Door - opened the bar in late 2016 as a deliberate es.....

Just west of downtown Miami, Little Havana is the cultural soul of the city's Cuban-American community and one of its most vibrant neighbourhoods. Settled by waves of Cuban exiles from the 1960s onward, and later enriched by arrivals from across Central and South America, the district pulses with the music, food, language and political passion of the Caribbean and Latin America, offering visitors an immersive sense of place found nowhere else in the country. Its spine is Calle Ocho, or Eighth S.....

Set on the site of the former Orange Bowl in the Little Havana neighbourhood, loanDepot Park is the home of Miami's Major League Baseball team and one of the most architecturally distinctive ballparks in the sport. Completed in 2012 and known as Marlins Park until a later renaming, it was conceived as a thoroughly modern, climate-controlled stadium suited to South Florida's heat and frequent storms, a sharp departure from the open-air bowl the team shared for its first two decades. Its defining.....