Mid-range · 6-hour walk · Miami
Wynwood and Little Havana in six hours
The warehouse murals, the design district, then the cigar rollers and domino players on Calle Ocho.
The three-hour route is South Beach and the Art Deco strip. This is mainland Miami and a better day: a warehouse district that a developer turned into an open-air mural museum in 2009, and Little Havana, where the Cuban exile community landed in the 1960s and which still runs on cafecito and dominoes. They are ten minutes apart by car and nothing like each other.
The route, stop by stop
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Wynwood Walls
The walled garden of commissioned murals that started it, now ticketed. The free murals on the surrounding streets are arguably the better half.
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Wynwood district
Twenty-odd blocks of painted warehouses, breweries and galleries. Second Saturday is the art walk and the whole district is out.
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Miami Design District
Luxury retail wrapped around public art, including a Buckminster Fuller dome reassembled in a courtyard. Free to walk through.
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Calle Ocho
Arrive by taxi from the previous stop
The spine of Little Havana. Cafecito at the walk-up window of Versailles, and the smell of cigars being rolled by hand in the shops along it.
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Domino Park
Men have played dominoes here daily since 1976. You may watch; do not photograph without asking.
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Tower Theater
A 1926 art deco cinema that switched to Spanish subtitles in the 1960s for the new arrivals, and still runs Spanish-language film.
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