A storied icon of American hospitality, The Gasparilla Inn sits on its eponymous barrier island on Florida’s Gulf Coast. The historic 1913 landmark has evolved into a vibrant pageant of old-Florida grace: an expanded 63-room inn surrounded by yellow clapboard cottages, a golf course on its own island, and a sprawling beach club that’s set amid manicured palms, bougainvillea, and banyan trees, and fronts one of the state’s most magnificent beaches. Each space looks lovingly composed, from the pink-tinged ladies sitting room and the floral-saturated main hall with its “green goddess” tones and orchids to the coral-and-cream ocean cottages overlooking the Gulf.