Sarasota is famous as the winter headquarters of the Ringling Bros. Circus. John Ringling and his wife built a beautiful home there and after their deaths, bequeathed the property: their winter home, museums and their vast art collection to the state of Florida. It's now a vast museum complex, unlike any I've visited and I thoroughly enjoyed my stay there. There are two museums, one housing circus memorabilia, animal wagons and the train in which the Ringling's travelled cross country. The other museum houses a miniature circus, just like it would have been set up in the day when the circus would roll into a town during the 30's.
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| The Ringling winter home |
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| One of the highly decorative animal wagons |
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Human Cannon
Miniature scale circus from above
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