Downtown Pensacola is enjoying a new wave of cultural vibrancy. While you're here, don't miss the opportunity to check out these three small but formidable cultural hot spots that are making the downtown district a popular stop on the art circuit​ these ​days.

Voices of Pensacola Multicultural Center • Improvable Cause at Pensacola Little Theatre • Quayside Gallery

This re-enactment group of Jacksonian era and Spanish soldiers, fifers, and drummers perform their Colors Ceremony every third Saturday of the month at noon in Plaza Ferdinand. The colorful ceremony commemorates Pensacola's 195th birthday & the transfer of Spanish Florida to a US Territory.

It's the largest public art project in Pensacola, a 3,000 sq. ft. mural painted by local artists Ashton Howard and Evan Levin. The pair spent more than 300 hours on a scissor lift high above the ground, transforming a plain brick parking garage wall into a colorful work of art.

The votes are in, and Downtown Pensacola is celebrating its selection as Florida's Greatest Place. Great Places of Florida, an award program of the Florida Chapter of the American Planning Association, highlights Florida's great communities and the great people that comprise them.