In the field of arts and culture,

A top arts and cultural destination among cities of its size, St. Petersburg is home to world-renowned museums and independent galleries, a thriving performing arts scene with film festivals and live music, a thriving literary arts community with an active literary arts community, a close-knit community of working artists and craftspeople, and an abundance of public art and outdoor installations. The Dali Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, the Chihuly Collection, the Florida Holocaust Museum, the James Museum, the St. Petersburg Museum of History, the Morean Arts Center, the Dr. Carter G. Woodson African American History Museum, Florida CraftArt, and Great Explorations are just a few of the museums and galleries in St. Petersburg. A year-round schedule of entertainment is available at venues such as the Mahaffey Theater and the Palladium, as well as residential theater companies like Studio@620, freeFall Theatre and American Stage. The Florida Orchestra and the St. Petersburg Opera are both based in St. Petersburg, which also has a year-round schedule of entertainment. Throughout the city, the arts are interwoven, and their impact may be observed on street corners, through alleys, and in the midst of everyday life. The city’s music scene includes performances in both crowded venues and backyards, filmmakers shooting and screening in the area, live poetry in cafés and breweries, a traveling book bus, and an annual mural festival that features artwork from all over the world.

Natural Attractiveness

Located on a peninsula, St. Petersburg has 244 miles of coastline along Tampa Bay, Boca Ciega Bay, the Gulf of Mexico, and the intracoastal waterways. The city is divided into three districts. Environmentally friendly, the city’s natural surrounds are a refuge of wildlife, providing a diverse range of landscapes and ecosystems. Around 2,300 acres of public property are allocated to 137 parks and recreation spaces, including a seven-mile protected downtown waterfront, which ranks as North America’s third-largest urban waterfront park system behind New York City and Los Angeles. The 245-acre Boyd Hill Nature Preserve, the Sunken Gardens botanical park, the historic Weedon Island Preserve, and Ft. Desoto Park are just a few of the unique parks in or around St. Petersburg.

Opportunity

Saint Petersburg, one of the nation’s fastest-growing cities, provides a plethora of options that attract and keep businesses, investors, citizens, and top-tier professionals. From start-ups to Fortune 500 companies, St. Pete assists businesses of all sizes in launching, sustaining, and thriving by providing methods and structures to help them succeed. Because of the lifestyle and capacity to grow that this location offers, downtown development is growing, and housing is expanding at an alarming rate. In this metropolis, more than 265,000 people call it home, dispersed throughout more than 100 diverse neighborhoods around the city and contributing to a regional workforce of more than 1.4 million individuals. Many of our students fall in love with the city and choose to stay in the area after graduation, thanks to the nearly 150,000 students we educate across public, private, and technical schools and universities, including St Petersburg College, Eckerd College, University of South Florida St. Petersburg, Pinellas Technical Education Center, and Stetson University College of Law, among others. St. Petersburg has consistently been ranked as one of the best places to live, work, and establish a business in the country.

Taking part in sports and recreational activities

Tropicana Field, home of the Tampa Bay Rays (MLB), and Al Lang Stadium, home of the Tampa Bay Rowdies (NASL), are located in St. Petersburg, and the area supports the regional home teams that play across the bay—the Buccaneers (NFL) and the Lightning (NHL) (NHL). Whether you’re a sports fan or an athlete, St. Peter provides a variety of recreational opportunities for both groups. In addition to three award-winning public golf courses, nine public pools, 60 lighted tennis courts, 25 pickle ball courts, six dog parks, three skateboard park a Jai Alai fronton, shuffleboard and lawn bowling complex, an airport, an extensive network of trails and bikeways, including the Pinellas Trail, which stretches 54 miles from coast to coast and the brand new St. Pete Pier, St. Pete is home to a thriving arts and culture scene.

Trivia St. Pete is the holder of the Guinness World Record for having the longest run of continuous days of sunlight, which began in 1967 and lasted for 768 days in total.

The Sunshine Skyway Bridge, which spans 4.1 miles and rises 19 storeys above Tampa Bay at its midway, is one of the largest cable suspension bridges in the Western Hemisphere, with a length of 4.1 miles.

Both the Benoist Airboat flight and the establishment of Major League Baseball Spring Training took place in St. Petersburg in 1914, marking the city as the birthplace of scheduled flying.