TheWest Coast and Panhandle

Florida's West Coast has a well-deserved reputation for music and the arts, with symphonies, ballets, and big-name concerts in Tampa, Sarasota, and Naples. Museums such as the Salvador Dali Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, and the Florida International Museum--all in St. Petersburg--as well as Sarasota's Ringling Museum of Art draw audiences from all over the South, while local theater groups are abundant.