MiamiTravel Guide

Lummus Park and South Pointe Park in South Beach, the long boardwalk, the sand at Haulover and Crandon further out — all of it is public.

The heart of the largest Haitian community in the United States: botanicas, record shops, murals in flag colours, and the Little Haiti Cultural Complex with its Caribbean Marketplace, a building modelled on the iron market of Port-au-Prince.

Wynwood's paid courtyard is only the core of a district whose walls are covered for blocks in every direction, and the exterior murals are free to walk.

Miami's produce district, where the city's fruit and vegetables have been wholesaled for generations, now shares its streets with the Rubell Museum, one of the world's most significant private contemporary art collections in a converted industrial building.

Rates fall hard in the hot, wet months and rise all winter.

Roast pork, ham, Swiss, pickles and mustard, pressed until the bread cracks.

In season, Florida stone crab claws are the great local luxury: served chilled with mustard sauce, the claws harvested and the crab returned to the water.

End in Little Havana, where Ball & Chain has been a Calle Ocho music room on and off since the 1930s, and the cocktail bars nearby take the Cuban cantinero tradition seriously.

Florida stone crab claws, traditionally available from mid-October into spring — check current dates