Sarasota Official Visitors Guide - (Page 26)
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&MEET
WHERE ARTISTIC
EXPRESSION
INSPIRATION
W
hile area beaches have been winning
awards, Sarasota has been establishing
itself as one of the country's great
destinations for arts and culture,
something visitors will discover every day and night in
local performance halls, theaters, galleries and even an
opera house. Small wonder this corner of the Suncoast
has come to be known as "Florida's Cultural Coast®."
Like so many facets of Sarasota's development, circus
giant John Ringling had something to do with it all.
When he bequeathed his palatial winter estate and art
museum - housing works by the great masters of Europe
- to the state of Florida in 1936, Sarasota was instantly
established as a major artistic city, a reputation it has
been cultivating ever since.
Top: John Ringling's estate, Cà d'Zan
Above: Hello, Dolly at the Venice Theatre
Opposite page: Sarasota Opera House
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Today, The Ringling Museums, Theater & Gardens is
the State Art Museum of Florida, affiliated with Florida
State University and one of the largest university arts
complexes in the nation. And it will get even larger in
2015, when a new Asian wing is due to open.
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