By Patti Nickell
From Tribune News Service
St. Augustine–Many agree that the most impressive way to arrive in St. Augustine is by crossing the Intracoastal Waterway on the Bridge of Lions.
Looking toward the city, it’s easy to imagine that you are in Valencia or Barcelona as bell towers and colorful buildings with their lacy facades dominate the skyline.
Not surprising, since America’s oldest non-indigenous city was settled by Spanish conquistadors in 1565, 52 years after explorer Ponce de Leon first landed here.
As we learn in our elementary school textbooks, he was in search of the Fountain of Youth and believed he had found it here….