Lifestyle

The metropolitan Tampa area offers many recreational and cultural opportunities. Professional sports clubs in the area offer year-round recreational activities, including Tampa Bay Buccaneers football, Tampa Bay Storm arena football, Tampa Bay Lightning hockey, Tampa Bay Devil Rays baseball and Tampa Bay Downs horse racing. Arts and entertainment are predominant in the metro area, with the Florida Aquarium, Busch Gardens, the Tampa Museum of Art, the Ybor City Historic District, the Museum of Science and Industry, the Museum of Fine Arts and the Salvador Dali Museum, to name a few. Numerous festivals in the area also occur year-round. The Gasparilla Festival, the Ybor City Fiesta Day and Night Parade, the Florida Strawberry Festival and the Guavaween Extravaganza are just a few of the bigger events. In addition, many of the neighborhoods in the metro area have monthly family festivals that have become a community tradition.