Where in Miami can you eat a steak, sip tea in Victorian cups, have your fortune told in a tarot reading, walk along tree-lined paths, enjoy art, buy candles, and all that with free parking?
Welcome to Cauley Square, a paradise in southern Miami-Dade County, a former village where Henry Flagler’s train station once stood, with about twenty authentic wooden bungalows painted in the most incredible colors.
These cottages, some more than a century old, house shops, art galleries, a beauty salon, a tea shop, and a stand where you can sip delicious coconut water after enjoying the peacocks who roam there area alongside a colony of cats.
Because of its meditation garden-like characteristics, its intertwined tree paths, it’s a special candidate for Miami Oculto (Hidden Miami), which this time invited Ecuadorian painter Carlos Franco, owner of The Children’s Gallery & Art Center in Cauley Square, one of the many businesses located there and which he prefers to classify as “a lifestyle.”…