Pensacola
Pensacola is a city in the Florida Panhandle.
Pensacola is a city in the Florida Panhandle. It is the county seat and only city in Escambia County. It is the principal city of the Pensacola Metropolitan Area, which had 509,905 residents in the 2020 census. The incorporated city’s population was 54,312 at the 2020 census.
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Worth seeing in and around Pensacola
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Pensacola Civic Center
Pensacola Bay Center is an indoor arena located in Pensacola, Florida. It is owned by Escambia County and operated by Legends Global.
1.3 km · arena in Florida, United States · Wikipedia - 02Pensacola Museum of Art
The Pensacola Museum of Art is an art museum located in downtown Pensacola, Florida. PMA is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums.
500 m · museum in Pensacola, Florida · Wikipedia - 03Pensacola Christian College
Pensacola Christian College is a private Christian college in Pensacola, Florida, United States. Founded in 1974 by Arlin and Beka Horton, it has been accredited by the Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools since 2013.
7.2 km · Christian, Independent Baptist, liberal arts college in Pensacola, Florida · Wikipedia - 04Temple Beth-El
Temple Beth-El is a Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 800 North Palafox Street, in downtown Pensacola, Florida, in the United States.
1.6 km · reform Jewish synagogue in Pensacola, Florida, US · Wikipedia - 05Cathedral of the Sacred Heart
The Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, is the seat of the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pensacola-Tallahassee. It shares this distinction with the Co-Cathedral of Saint Thomas More in Tallahassee.
3 km · church in Florida, United States · Wikipedia - 06Basilica of St. Michael the Archangel (Pensacola, Florida)
The Basilica of St. Michael the Archangel in Pensacola, Florida, United States is a minor basilica of the Catholic Church in the Diocese of Pensacola-Tallahassee.
800 m · church in Florida, United States · Wikipedia - 07Pensacola Bay Bridge
The Pensacola Bay Bridge, also known locally as the Three-Mile Bridge, runs between downtown Pensacola, Florida, and Gulf Breeze, Florida. It carries six lanes of U.S. Highway 98 across Pensacola Bay.
3.4 km · bridge in United States of America · Wikipedia - 08American National Bank Building
The American National Bank Building is a historic bank in Pensacola, Florida, United States. On November 17, 1978, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
400 m · bank building in Pensacola, Florida · Wikipedia - 09Plaza Ferdinand VII
The Plaza Ferdinand VII is an outdoor garden and park in the Historic Pensacola Village area of downtown Pensacola, Florida. It is located on Palafox Street between Government and Zaragoza Streets.
500 m · park in the United States of America · Wikipedia - 10Fort George
Fort George was a British fort built in 1778 for the protection of Pensacola, Florida. The Spanish captured it in Siege of Pensacola on May 10, 1781, during the American Revolutionary War.
1.3 km · fort in Pensacola, Florida · Wikipedia
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Getting to Pensacola
- Airports
- Pensacola (PNS), 8 km · Louis Armstrong New Orleans (MSY), 296 km
- Stations
- Pensacola International Airport, 8 km · Louisville and Nashville Passenger Station and Express Building, 1.4 km
- New Orleans → Pensacola280 km · quickest by road, 3h 54m · $26–36
- Birmingham → Pensacola347 km · quickest by road, 5h 9m · $32–45
- Atlanta → Pensacola456 km · quickest by air, 3h 34m · $160–240
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Pensacola
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Pensacola. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundIf you don't have the skill or the will to captain your own boat, you can charter a boat.
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Next door to Pensacola
- United States District Court for the Northern District of FloridaUnited States federal district court in Florida700 m
- Palafox Historic Districthistoric district in Florida, United States500 m
- North Hill Preservation Districthistoric district of Pensacola, Florida, United States1.5 km