If you saw the 1998 Gweneth Paltrow movie, Great Expectations, you have seen some of the Ringling Estate, as it was used as the primary filming location for the movie. The mansion is now part of the John and Mable Ringling Museum that includes the Ca’D’ Zan, the couple’s 56 room home. John and his wife Mable, worth an estimated 200 million at the time, built their winter home on beautiful Sarasota Bay. They planned to turn the area into thier circus’ winter home base and bought an obscene amount of land. In the early 1900s, John and Charles Ringling started buying up land in the seaside town of Sarasota.

I even learned that a bunch of you, our loyal readers, lived here, too! If there is a place I don’t mention that you expected me to mention here, make sure you tell me in the comments so I can check it out next time! ` The City A Circus Built: The Ringling’s of Sarasota

I had many new experiences and learned a few things about a place I resided in for most of my youth. I went as an adult traveler, with young children, in a place I hadn’t ever explored in that way. I recently returned to Sarasota with a new perspective. Then my dreams were dashed, and I learned that most Floridians rarely make it to the beach, and Walt Disney World might as well have been a million miles away. When my family decided to move to Florida when I was a child, my classmates told me that school was on the beach and people went to Disney every weekend. This article contains Stay22 affiliate links.

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