Miami Shores in Forida
Wednesday, 20 July 2016 - 11:00 am (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika General , Miami / South Florida
Reading Time:Â 2 minutes
© Averette/cc-by-3.0
🔊 Listen to this Post
Miami Shores is a village with a population of 10,500 in
Miami-Dade County in Florida. Miami Shores was originally a neighborhood of the
City of Miami when it was annexed into the city of Miami in 1925. With the arrival of the
Great Depression , the City of Miami gave up its jurisdiction and Miami Shores was incorporated as its own village in 1932.
Miami Shores is located on Biscayne Bay and is adjacent to the north of Miami. Surrounding municipalities are El Portal , Biscayne Park , North Miami , Miami Beach and North Bay Village .
U.S. Route 1 and the
Florida State Roads 5 , 915 and 932 running directly through Miami Shores.
Interstate 95 runs immediately to the west of the city. In addition, the railway line of the
Florida East Coast Railway runs through the municipality. The nearest airports are the
Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport (national, 6 mi) and the
Miami International Airport (9 mi).
Miami Shores is particularly interesting for architecture enthusiasts. Within the village more than 20 buildings can be found which are listed in the
National Register of Historic Places . The
Spanish Colonial architecture style can often be found here.
Read more on
MiamiAndBeaches.com – Miami Shores ,
Miami Shores Country Club ,
miamism.com and
Wikipedia Miami Shores (
Smart Traveler App by U.S. Department of State -
Weather report by weather.com -
Johns Hopkins University & Medicine - Coronavirus Resource Center -
Global Passport Power Rank -
Democracy Index -
GDP according to IMF, UN, and World Bank -
Global Competitiveness Report -
Corruption Perceptions Index -
Press Freedom Index -
World Justice Project - Rule of Law Index -
UN Human Development Index -
Global Peace Index -
Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Index ). Photos by Wikimedia Commons. If you have a suggestion, critique, review or comment to this blog entry, we are looking forward to receive your e-mail at
comment@wingsch.net . Please name the headline of the blog post to which your e-mail refers to in the subject line.
VIDEO
Recommended posts:
[caption id="attachment_24248" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Herrenchiemsee Palace © Zairon/cc-by-sa-3.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]HERRENCHIEMSEE
The island Herreninsel, with an area of 238 hectares, is the biggest of the three main islands of the Chiemsee, a lake in Upper Bavaria. Together with the islands of Fraueninsel and Krautinsel it forms the municipality of Chiemsee.
Herrenchiemsee is inhabited by only about 300 people. The island is famous for the palace of Herrenchiemsee built by Ludwig II of Bavaria. Apar...
[ read more ]
[caption id="attachment_219301" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Floating houses on the Amazon © flickr.com - Bruno Girin/cc-by-sa-2.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Iquitos, also known as City of Iquitos, is the capital city of Peru's Maynas Province and Loreto Region. The largest metropolis in the Peruvian Amazon, east of the Andes, it is the ninth-most populous city of Peru. It is known as the "capital of the Peruvian Amazon". The city is located in the Great Plains of the Amazon Basin, fed by the Amazon, Nanay, and Itaya rivers....
[ read more ]
[caption id="attachment_235128" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Miracle Theater © flickr.com - Rob Olivera/cc-by-2.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Miracle Mile is a 0.503-mile-long (0.810 km) section of Coral Way between LeJeune Road (SW 42nd Avenue) and Douglas Road (SW 37th Avenue) in Coral Gables, Florida. It is the main east-west road through the city's downtown central business district, consisting of many shops, financial institutions, restaurants and arts institution. The LeJeune Road end of Miracle Mile is anchored by the ...
[ read more ]
[caption id="attachment_208725" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Poi Kalon Ensemble © flickr.com - Fulvio Spada/cc-by-sa-2.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Bukhara is a city in Uzbekistan. Bukhara is rich in historical sites, with about 140 architectural monuments. The city served as the capital of the Samanid empire and Khanate of Bukhara and was the birthplace of Imam Bukhari. The nation's fifth-largest city, it had a population of 247,644 as of 31 August 2016. But according to the Statistics of O’zStatQo’m Department the City...
[ read more ]
[caption id="attachment_153934" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Kingston Harbour Sailing Race © Gwyneth Davidson[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, 234 kilometres (145 mi) in length, up to 80 kilometres (50 mi) in width and 10,990 square kilometres (4,243 sq mi) in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about 145 kilometres (90 mi) south of Cuba, and 191 kilometres (119 mi) west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Its indige...
[ read more ]
[caption id="attachment_152975" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Miniature of the old part of Stralsund © Marcus Sümnick[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Stralsund is a city in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, situated at the southern coast of the Strelasund (a sound of the Baltic Sea separating the island of Rügen from the mainland). Two bridges and several ferry services connect Stralsund with the ports of Rügen. The main industries of Stralsund are shipyards, fishing, and, to an increasing degree, tourism.
In 1293 Strals...
[ read more ]
[caption id="attachment_160855" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Cornhill © geograph.org.uk - Michael Wade[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Ipswich is a large town and a non-metropolitan district. It is the county town of Suffolk. Ipswich is located on the estuary of the River Orwell. Nearby towns are Felixstowe, Needham Market and Stowmarket in Suffolk and Harwich and Colchester in Essex.
The urban development of Ipswich overspills the borough boundaries significantly, with 85% of the town's population living within the borou...
[ read more ]
[caption id="attachment_226763" align="aligncenter" width="590"] © Fperezgo/cc-by-sa-3.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]The Hospicio Cabañas or Museum Cabañas in Guadalajara, Jalisco was one of the oldest and largest orphanage and hospital complexes in the Americas. Now turned into a museum, the main hall hosts the magnum opus frescoes of muralist painter José Clemente Orozco. The place was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997. The complex was founded in 1791 by the Bishop of Guadalajara in order to combine the functio...
[ read more ]
[caption id="attachment_153316" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Sherry Regulate Council © Mao06[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Jerez de la Frontera is a municipality in the Province of Cádiz in the autonomous community of Andalusia, (AndalucÃa in Spanish) in southwestern Spain, situated midway between the sea and the mountains. As of 2010, the city, the largest in the province, had 208,896 inhabitants; it is the fifth largest in Andalusia. It has become the transportation and communications hub of the province, surpassing even CÃ...
[ read more ]
[caption id="attachment_151207" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Dhow seen off the coast of Dar es Salaam © SajjadF/cc-by-sa-3.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Dar es Salaam, formerly Mzizima, is Tanzania's largest and richest city, the largest city in eastern Africa by population, and a regionally important economic centre. It is the capital of the Dar es Salaam Region administrative province and consists of three local government areas or administrative districts: northern Kinondoni, central Ilala, and southern Temeke. The region ...
[ read more ]
