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Forty miles north of Daytona Beach, Hwy-1
passes through the heart of ST AUGUSTINE . Few
places in Florida are as immediately engaging as this old city,
with the size and even some of the looks of a small Mediterranean
town. The oldest permanent settlement in the US, with much from
its early days still intact along its narrow streets, it also
offers two alluring lengths of beach just across the bay.
Ponce de Le?n touched ground here in 1513, but European
settlement began when Spain's Pedro Men?ndez de Avil?s put ashore
on St Augustine's Day in 1565. Sir Francis Drake's ships razed
the town in 1586, the first of many battles before Florida was
eventually ceded to Britain in 1763. By then the town was a major
social and administrative center, soon to be capital of east Florida.
Subsequently, Tallahassee became the capital of a unified Florida,
and St Augustine's fortunes waned. Expansion largely bypassed
the town - a fact inadvertently facilitating the restoration program
that has turned this quiet community into a fine historical showcase
