The port of Pensacola (pop. 60,000), situated on the best and largest natural harbour in Florida, is the economic center of the western edge of the Panhandle, the "Miracle Strip". Its history goes back more than 400 years, and the carefully restored Historic Village contains buildings of the Spanish, French and British colonial periods.
Features of interest in the surrounding area are the U.S. Naval Aviation Museum; Fort Pickens (1834), at the west end of Santa Rosa Island; and Pensacola Beach with its expanses of sugar-white sand.
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