Hotels in Coral Gables, Florida

A little about Coral Gables...

Often called "The Gables," Coral Gables is a city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, southwest of Miami, in the United States. The city is best known as the home of the University of Miami.

The population was 42,249 at the 2000 census. According to U.S Census estimates in 2005, the city had a population of 42,871.

Places of interest:

Biltmore Hotel - The Coral Gables Biltmore Hotel is a luxury hotel opened in 1926, by John McEntee Bowman and George Merrick as part of the Biltmore hotel chain. Located in Coral Gables, Florida the Schultze and Weaver-designed building is now a national historic landmark.

Coral Way scenic drive
DeSoto Fountain
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden
John C. Gifford Arboretum
Jerry Herman Ring Theatre
Montgomery Botanical Center
University of Miami
Venetian Pool
Home to University of Miami:

Academics
Coral Gables is best known as home to the University of Miami, a globally-recognized university that is ranked academically among the top tier of U.S.-based colleges and universities. Some of its academic programs, including those in business, marine biology, medicine and music, are considered among the best in the world.

The University of Miami has graduated many prominent leaders in the fields of art, athletics, business, entertainment, music, politics, science, television, and other fields.

Collegiate athletics:

The University of Miami also maintains one of the nation's most successful collegiate athletic programs. It has won repeated national championships in both Division I football (1983, 1987, 1989, 1991 and 2001) and baseball (1982, 1985, 1999 and 2001). Over the past 25 years, the University of Miami has been amongst the most successful Division I college football program in the nation, as its five national championships since 1983 are the most of any Division I university of the past quarter century.

The University of Miami also has graduated two Heisman Trophy winners, Vinny Testaverde (in 1986) and Gino Torretta (in 1992), and three of its former football players--Ted Hendricks, Jim Kelly and Jim Otto--went on, following highly successful National Football League careers, to be elected into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, the highest honor awarded a former NFL player. Currently, the University of Miami has more of its graduates playing in the NFL than any other U.S. college or university.