Tallahassee offers a handsome collection of rolling hills, plentiful trees, and an interesting variety of Southern architectural styles. Within the Park Avenue Historic District, visitors can stroll along streets lined with elegant ante-bellum and turn-of-the-century homes, explore the Old City Cemetery, and relax at the newly renovated city parks. The Museum of Florida History allows visitors to climb aboard a reconstructed steamboat, examine sunken treasures, and march to a Civil War musical beat.
Although Tallahassee does not field any professional teams, watching college sporting events is very popular, so popular, in fact, that the city sponsors Downtown Get Downs, high spirited, themed block-parties, on most Friday nights preceding college home football games. The free events feature food vendors, live entertainment, arts and crafts, and more. Football, baseball, and other intercollegiate sports are played by the Florida State Seminoles and Florida A & M Rattlers.The Nike Tallahassee Open takes place in April at the Golden Eagle Country Club.
Downtown Tallahassee offers a variety of specialty and gift shops at Downtown Market Place on Park, where fine arts, crafts, authors, writers/poets, live jazz, chefs, historic chats, children's storytelling and a farmer's market can be enjoyed on Saturdays from March to November. The Tallahassee Mall boasts more than 90 specialty stores. Governor's Square is home to over 100 stores and restaurants, anchored by four full-line department stores, and a large food court.
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