Coral Gables
"The City Beautiful, Built to Last"
VIBE: Elegant · Driven · Historic · Timeless
Coral Gables is not accidental. Every street, every building, every archway was conceived as part of developer George Merrick's grand vision for a planned Mediterranean-style city, designed in the 1920s with the conviction that beauty and ambition could coexist in the same neighborhood. Nearly a century later, his vision holds — and the Gables remains one of the most beautiful and sought-after communities in all of Florida.
The Biltmore Hotel looms over the neighborhood like a cathedral — its tower modeled after the Giralda of Seville, its pool (once the largest in the world) still the social centerpiece of the Gables social calendar. The Venetian Pool, carved from a coral rock quarry in 1923, is a National Historic Landmark that people still swim in today. The Miracle Mile shopping district is one of South Florida's finest dining and retail corridors.
Coral Gables is home to the University of Miami, which fills the neighborhood with academic energy alongside its established elegance. "There Is No Tomorrow" reads like a Gables resident's morning mantra — always building, always refining, never satisfied with yesterday's achievement. Driven people live here, and the neighborhood is worthy of them.
NEIGHBORHOOD FACTS
▸ Planned city developed by George Merrick starting in 1921
▸ The Biltmore Hotel — National Historic Landmark
▸ Venetian Pool — only swim club on National Register of Historic Places
▸ Vibe: Sunday Biltmore brunch followed by a walk through the architecture