Book a window seat on the starboard side for your next flight to Miami. As you land, you’ll see a tower, rising like Proteus from the sea, that looks like it took a wrong turn on the way to Cadiz. A preacher’s son built her, chose her as the centerpiece of the city he intended to carve into his acres of citrus grove and pine. If Manhattan was the new Amsterdam, or perhaps the new York, Coral Gables would be the new Venice and the new Barcelona, with miles of backyard waterways and winding boulevards, grand entrances and shady prados.
