st. augustine

     

This Florida city's 1565 founding is observed in September at the Mission of Nombre de Dios

Trivia about st. augustine

  • "Cross & Sword" is an outdoor pageant dramatizing the 1565 founding of this Florida city
  • The Spanish Beard Contest has been a hair-raising event at this oldest U.S. city's Days In Spain Festival
  • The site of this city, now the seat of Saint Johns County, Florida, was visited by Ponce de Leon in 1513
  • For years Gomek the giant crocodile was the big attraction at this oldest Florida city's alligator farm
  • Castillo de San Marcos in this Florida city is the oldest masonry fort in the continental U.S.
  • Dating from the early 1700s, the Gonzalez-Alvarez House in this city is the oldest house in Florida
  • A coastal Florida city bears the name of this saint, the son of Santa Monica
  • The "confessions" of this deeply religious church father began the genre
  • Sir Francis Drake looted & burned the Spanish fort at this Florida site in 1586
  • A Florida city is named for this medieval author of "The City of God"
  • A 4th century A.D. Catholic Patriarch:"Confessions"
  • Appropriately, Potter's Wax Museum in this Florida city bills itself as the oldest in the U.S.
  • Splendors of the Gilded Age adorn the Lightner Museum, once a Gilded Age hotel in this oldest Florida city
  • Florida city in which you can explore the historic fortress Castillo de San Marcos
  • Popularly known as "The Oldest House", the Gonzalez-Alvarez House in this Florida city dates from around 1723
  • This oldest permanent European settlement in America was burned by Drake in 1586
  • This city was founded in 1565 by Pedro Menendez de Aviles & served as capital of Spanish Florida for over 200 years
  • Monica was the sainted mother of this bishop of Hippo
  • "Cross and Sword", Florida's official state play, was created to reenact this city's founding in 1565
  • The mother of this "City of God" saint was a Berber