Vizcaya station

Vizcaya station is a station on the Metrorail rapid transit service station in The Roads neighborhood of Miami, Florida. The station is located near the intersection of Southwest First Avenue and 32nd Road, adjacent to the national southern terminus of I-95 at South Dixie Highway, two blocks southeast of Coral Way.

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Type: Metro station
Description: Miami, Florida Metrorail station
Also known as: “Vizcaya” and “Vizcaya Station”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Vizcaya Museum and Gardens and HCA Florida Mercy Hospital.

Vizcaya Museum and Gardens

Museum

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The Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, previously known as Villa Vizcaya, is the former villa and estate of businessman James Deering, of the Deering McCormick-International Harvester fortune, on Biscayne Bay in the present-day Coconut Grove neighborhood of Miami, Florida. Vizcaya Museum and Gardens is situated 2,000 feet south of Vizcaya station.

HCA Florida Mercy Hospital

Hospital

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Mercy Hospital is a 488-bed acute care hospital located in Coconut Grove, Miami, Florida. It is Miami-Dade County's only Catholic hospital, it is sponsored by the Sisters of St. Joseph of St. Augustine, Florida. HCA Florida Mercy Hospital is situated 3,400 feet south of Vizcaya station.

Coral Way Elementary School

School

The Coral Way Bilingual K–8 Center, built as Coral Way Elementary School in 1936, is a K-8 school located in Miami, Florida, United States. The school was a pioneer of bilingual education in 1963, when it began teaching through the mediums of English and Spanish with two groups of students. Coral Way Elementary School is situated 2,300 feet northwest of Vizcaya station.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Brickell and Little Havana.

Brickell

Neighborhood

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Downtown Miami is a district in Miami, steel-and-glass buildings have sprung up around downtown, the heart of the city. By day there's plenty of activity downtown, as suited lawyers and bankers share the sidewalks with Latino merchants wearing open-neck, intricately embroidered shirts called guayaberas.

Little Havana

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Little Havana is located just west of Downtown Miami. Also known as the Latin Quarter, it received its name by being a Cuban neighborhood from the 1970s until the 1990s, but now consists of many Central and South Americans.