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Ca d' Zan John & Mable Ringling's winter home in Sarasota, Florida Places Visited: Thursday, December 29 through Sunday January 1: Sun N Fun RV-Resort in Sarasota, Florida $35.30 FHU with 50-amps, paved interior roads N27° 20.66' W82° 24.96' We continue to have a great time here in Sarasota. Next we traveled a few miles north to the John & Mable Ringling Museum Complex consisting of the 66-acre Ringling estate with three gems of the past: an internationally recognized Museum of art filled with masterpieces; a circus museum that revisits the excitement of the big top; and John and Mable's magnificent, 32-room Venetian-Gothic style mansion on beautiful Sarasota Bay. In the John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art, you'll find Ringling's renowned collection-an astounding assortment of 17th century baroque paintings, including giant works that take up entire walls of special rooms designed to show off these paintings and the ancient Greek, Roman and baroque sculptures. The Circus Museum offers a snapshot of circus history, with lavish costumes, intricately painted and carved wagons, and clown and performing arts memorabilia from the long and eventful history of the Ringling Bros. Circus. And last but not least Ca d' Zan, the Ringlings' winter residence perched upon Sarasota Bay beckons amazed visitors. A tour of Ca d' Zan provides another look at the magnificent collection of decorative arts, furnishings, and paintings that spotlight how the wealthy half lived during the "Roaring Twenties". While Joyce and I have toured these places before we chose to concentrate on walking the grounds today. The grounds include a wonderful rose garden and many magnificent banyan trees, a sausage tree, giant bamboo groves, stately oaks and royal palms and the ever present citrus trees complete and statues that for some reason did not fit into inside decor.
Ca d' Zan John & Mable Ringling's winter home in Sarasota, Florida
This is Ca d' Zan John & Mable Ringling's winter home ( Venetian-Gothic style mansion) here in Sarasota that captures the exuberant lifestyle of America's spectacular "Roaring Twenties." The name of the residence is Venetian for House of John. Thus the John in John Ringling.
Ca d' Zan John & Mable Ringling's winter home in Sarasota, Florida
Built in the 1920s by John Ringling, of the Ringling Brothers Circus, and his wife, Mable, the Venetian-style mansion dominates 20 acres of Sarasota waterfront, accompanied by the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art
Ca d' Zan John & Mable Ringling's winter home in Sarasota, Florida
Ca d' Zan John & Mable Ringling's winter home in Sarasota, Florida
There is a LOT of marble and sandstone in this place.
Ca d' Zan John & Mable Ringling's winter home in Sarasota, Florida
The bay front facade of the living room at Ca d'Zan. Do note the marble terrace.
Ca d' Zan John & Mable Ringling's winter home in Sarasota, Florida
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