Historic Bok Tower Gardens Tour
Bok Tower Gardens aka (The Singing Tower), the historic gardens founded in 1921 as a bird sanctuary on its highest hill. Efforts proved unsuccessful because the birds couldn't survive the colder winters of central Florida. Instead, swans swim around the tower's moat today.
A library dedicated entirely to the subject of bells. Yep, a library all about bells! The Anton Brees Carillon Library is located on the fifth floor of the Singing Tower and is often considered to be the one of the largest carillon-related material collections in the world.
On the ground floor, you've got The Founder's Room with a grand a fireplace, looking a bit like some secret masonic meeting place. A 211-step wrought-iron and steel staircase begins on this floor and an original Otis electric elevator is still in operation today. Quite a few marriage proposals have taken place in the tower, although that privilege is of course reserved only for members.
