St Petersburg
The city of St Petersburg, famed for its perpetual sunshine, lies on the Pinellas peninsula on the central Gulf Coast of Florida, between Tampa Bay and Boca Ciega Bay. Off the peninsula is a chain of long, narrow islands. There are wide beaches and numerous marinas along this stretch of coast.
History
The
town was founded in 1876 and named after the home town of a Russian businessman who was much involved in the enterprise. In the 1880s the Pinellas Sunshine Coast was already renowned for its healthy climate and attracted a steady increase in population, mainly older people.
St Petersburg appeared in the Guinness Book of Records when the sun shone on every single day from 1967 to 1969. From 1910 to 1986 the local paper, the "Evening Independent", was given away free on any day on which the sun did not shine, and this cost the publishers only very small losses.
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