At the heart of Delray Beach’s thriving downtown area is Atlantic Avenue. Along with more than 250 restaurants, galleries and boutiques, live oaks, royal palm trees and decorative street lamps line the brick-paved sidewalks. This area has drawn national acclaim, including the Centennial Medallion Award, which acknowledges the nation’s most significant works of landscape architecture. Delray Beach was presented with the All-America City Award in 1993 and 2001, the only city in Florida to receive it twice. Delray’s Municipal Beach was selected by South Florida Parenting magazine as the #1 Beach in Palm Beach County. A hundred yards offshore, scuba divers can explore the historic wreck of the S.S. Inchulva.

Delray Beach was founded by a combination of American, European, African-American and Japanese settlers in the early 1900s. Several museums serve as reminders of the city’s humble beginnings, including The Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens and the S.D. Spady Museum. You’ll find cultural diversity extends beyond the walls of the museums in Delray Beach; it is living in its neighborhoods.