Best known as Florida’s capital city, Tallahassee shares a deep-rooted history and culture with unparalleled natural adventure and an upbeat vitality. A fusion of cosmopolitan flair and charming personality defines the spirit of our great city. Stretching along the Florida Panhandle, Tallahassee is a place where a college town meets a cultural center, politics meets performing arts and history meets nature.
Touting a menagerie of sights, including one of the world’s deepest freshwater springs, wildlife habitats, Capitol buildings, fascinating museums of history, sprawling plantations, highly acclaimed fishing and hunting adventures, nearby beaches, superior dining, a bustling nightlife
If you are thinking of paying us a visit, start by checking out the list of local Tallahassee attractions below.
Area Attractions:
Provides the Tallahassee community with performances and other activities designed to foster interest in opera and music theater, develop new audiences, stimulate the current opera-going public, and introduce children to opera’s many rewards. Presents three annual mainstage productions, plus a more intimate workshop production. All events are held at Opperman Music Hall or Ruby Diamond Auditorium on the FSU campus.
Florida State University
211 Westcott Bldg.
Tallahasse, FL 32306
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Phone: (850) 644-1085
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Florida State University (FSU) is a public, fully accredited, coeducational research institution with an international reputation in the sciences and humanities. With a budget of more than $1 billion, FSU has 15 schools and colleges that offer more than 200 undergraduate, graduate, doctoral, professional and specialist degree programs covering a vast array of disciplines. Its 40,000 students have the opportunity to work and study alongside an outstanding faculty that has included Nobel laureates, members of the prestigious National Academy of Sciences, Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and winners of the Pulitzer Prize
Fort Gadsden Historic State Park/Apalachicola National Forest
Brickyard Rd
Eastpoint, FL 32328
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In 1814 an abandoned fort located 50 miles from the then-U.S. boundary, served as a base for the recruitment of Indians and blacks fleeing slavery in Georgia and the Carolinas. In 1815, Andrew Jackson constructed Fort Scott directly across the Apalachicola River from the other fort. Fort Scott’s primary purpose was to destroy the “Negro Fort” as it had come to be known. It was a devastating attack that killed almost all of the 300 inhabitants and Fort Gadsden was constructed on its site. Fort Gadsden and the remains of the Negro Fort are located in the wilderness of the Apalachicola National Forest.
Host to a variety of exhibitions that range from faculty exhibits to international showcases. Exhibits and opening events focus on the richness of visual art as an expression of material culture, history, and creative genius. Primarily features artists from the African Diaspora.
Frenchtown
612 W Brevard St
Tallahassee, FL 32303
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Phone: (850) 513-9981
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Bounded approximately by Tennessee Street, Alabama Street, Woodward Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Frenchtown is perhaps Tallahassee’s best-known black neighborhood. In 1831, historic plantations, churches, homesteads, educational institutions, businesses and residences filled this area. Following the Civil War many freed slaves migrated to the area and it developed into a thriving middle-class African American community. Only a few original structures remain with preservation efforts underway and the area continues to revitalize its homes and businesses.
Fresh for Florida Kids Food Garden
600 South Calhoun Street
Holland Building
Tallahassee , FL 32399
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Phone: (850) 617-7400
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A living educational exhibit by the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, the Fresh for Florida Kids Food Garden teaches school children about the importance of fruits and vegetables to daily nutrition and insight into growing fresh produce. The garden is open year round and you can click here to see what’s growing, more pictures and videos from gardener, Nathan The Man in Overalls. The garden is located at the Holland Building, across the street from the Capitol.
FSU - Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography/ Dept. of Dance
Montgomery Hall, FSU, P.O. Box 3062120
Tallahassee, FL 32306
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Phone: (850) 645-2449
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Offers a wide variety of dance concerts throughout the year in the Nancy Smith Fichter Dance Theatre, which recently completed a 17 million dollar renovation, transforming Montgomery Hall into a state-of-the-art dance facility. Also sponsors Dance Repertory Theatre, a student performing unit that presents an annual concert and informal performances and educational programs throughout Tallahassee and the southeast region. The Department also houses the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC) where many national and international choreographers’ residencies offer entrypoints that are free and open to the public.
A new exhibition each month showcases the cutting-edge contemporary artworks created by students in Florida State University’s Master of Fine Arts Studio Art program. With the space doubling as a photo studio during the week, exhibitions have limited engagements of First Friday weekends or special events.
Sponsors free public screenings of BFA films each December, and free public screenings of MFA thesis films each August. Film students produce more than 150 complete sound films each year, and thesis films have won more than 600 prizes, awards, and special screenings at national and international film festivals.
FSU College of Music
214 Kuersteiner Bldg.
Tallahassee, FL 32306-1180
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Phone: (850) 644-4744
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One of the largest, best respected music institutions in the nation, enrolling over 1,000 students in baccalaureate through doctorate programs, in virtually every field of music. Offers more than 430 faculty and student solo, chamber music, choral, orchestral, band, jazz, world music, early music, and guest artist concerts each year, many of which are free. Concerts are held on the FSU campus in Ruby Diamond Auditorium, Opperman Music Hall, Lindsay Recital Hall, and others.
