05.31.12
Why the pool at the Biltmore Hotel, in Coral Gables, Florida, deserves a place in the iconography of travel.
Miami was built on a grandiose dream that somehow came true. The Biltmore?s fanciful half-acre pool?flanked by a Moorish tower and faux-Roman statuary?embodies the infinite possibilities of this city of whimsy. The winter headquarters of the Roaring Twenties, the hotel survived the 1930?s with Busby Berkeley?style aquacades starring Esther Williams; Johnny Weissmuller, in pre-Tarzan days, was a swim coach. By the 1970?s, the derelict Biltmore had become the local version of the hotel in The Shining?as kids, we?d sneak in and use it as a spooky clubhouse. Over time, both hotel and pool reopened, but every swim remains a dip into myth, enveloped by glittering ghosts. $
Hotel courtesy of The Biltmore
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