Best Things to Do in Sarasota, FL
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Sarasota in one line: The circus baron's legacy: an art museum, circus museum, and bayfront mansion on one estate — plus botanical gardens, the bayfront, and a real opera and theater scene.
⭐ The one thing to know: A circus magnate left his art collection and Venetian mansion here — and turned a beach town into Florida's cultural capital.
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