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Tarpon Springs

West Coast

Florida

USA

Natural sponges in Tarpon Springs, Florida

Tarpon Springs is a city in Pinellas County, Florida. The shops along Dodecanese Avenue in the Sponge Dock District of Tarpon Springs are still thriving as both a historic and a current tourist destination. The street winds its way from the bayou towards the Tarpon Springs Aquarium at the far end. Along the way it passes the marina and Sponge Boats docked along the right hand side of the street and the Historic Sponge Exchange on the left. There are many restaurants serving traditional Greek cuisine and fresh seafood that dot the street as well as quaint boutiques that sell everything from real sponges to imported goods. The street is narrow and reminiscent of a seaside village in Greece, with delivery trucks parked in the right of way and locals that greet each other in Greek and stop to chat without regard to the traffic.

Sponge Diving in Tarpon Springs

Sponge diving mural at the Tarpon Springs Sponge Exchange

Closest Airport:
St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport
Airport Code:
PIE
General Location:
Located in the southeastern region of the United States, bordering Alabama to the northwest and Georgia to the northeast. Much of the land mass of the state is a large peninsula with the Gulf of Mexico to the west and the Atlantic Ocean to the east.

Sponge docks

Tarpon Springs PhotoTour

Local Motto or Saying:
In God We Trust
Nickname:
The Sunshine State

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Chamber of Commerce Info:
http://www.tarponspringschamber.org/

Sponger statue and sponge boat at the Sponge Docks

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