Coral Gables, Florida, 'The City Beautiful', is located in an upscale area of Miami away from the crowds of Miami Beach. The city is a rare jewel in South Florida, a community built on a grand scale that blends color, detail, and Mediterranean Revival architectural style to create a beautiful grace and grandeur. The City offers 22 parks, 33 public tennis courts, two public golf courses, and other recreation amenities such as the largest tropical botanical garden in the continental United States, a spring-fed grotto swimming pool made of native coral rock with underwater caves, bike paths, walking trails, and more. The Venetian Pool, 'the world’s most beautiful swimming hole', is a 820,000-gallon swimming pool built in 1923 from a coral rock quarry and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The pool is fed with cool spring water and is surrounded by two waterfalls, coral caves, and grottos. Coral Gables has a number of grand hotels as well as fine dining. If you want to see and experience the sea, the beaches of Collins Avenue in Miami Beach are not that far away or drive down to Key Largo on the Florida Keys Highway.