Vizcaya Museum and Gardens

              The Pergola. The Goddess Ceres stands amid Tuscan col umns that come alive at night.
The salon of the Deering suite-an Empire setting worthy of Napoleon.
Vizcaya after dark takes on a magical appearance that rivals in beauty its daytime countenance. Lights play on fountains and statues of mythological demigods. The Great House glows in its setting on the shore of Biscayne Bay. And the dark semitropical jungle that surrounds villa and gardens give them an added sparkle.
The opulence of a bygone era in turn-of-the-century America comes alive once more in Villa Vizcaya and its stunningly beautiful formal gardens. Once the winter home of James Deering, a founder of International Harvester Company, the mansion was inspired by the great villas of Renaissance Italy.
Inside the mansion, described as 46America’s most beautiful home,” are rare antiques — furniture, tapestries, Oriental rugs, architectural elements — dating to 1st century Rome, to 15th century Spain and Italy and later periods of Europe’s past.
Outside lie 10 acres of formal gardens unmatched in the Western world outside of Europe — unique in its subtropical adaption of the Italian hill garden and replete with grottoes, pools, fountains and sculptures. And beyond that, the jungle as it was in James Deering’s day and for centuries before, when only the original native Americans lived here.
Sound and Light at Vizcaya opens this almost unbelievable beautv to everyone.
Modelled after the son et lumière presentation at the Valley of the Kings in Luxor on Egypt’s upper Nile, Sound and Light at Vizcaya includes with all its beauty the fascinating story of the Italian Renaissance-style villa. Backed by music appropriate to a palazzo, special lighting highlights the narrative and the music.
Sound and Light at Vizcaya is a music and fine art experience unique in America. Reservations are required so that everyone attending derives the maximum pleasure of this very special event.
Vizcaya is open daily except Christmas from 9:30 a.m to 5 p.m. Ticket booth closes at 4:30 p.m.

Classical Gods and Goddesses flank the sculpture walks in Vizcaya’s Gardens.
Priceless treasures from Spain, Italy and France fill the Renaissance Hall-one of Vizcaya’s seventy rooms.
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Operated by Metropolitan Dade County Park and Recreation Department. This brochure and presentation made possible by grants from the Metropolitan Dade County Board of County Commissioners, Tourist Development Council and Dade County Council of Arts and Sciences to the Vizcayans.