51. Everything in St. Augustine is Spanish. The streets and hotels have Spanish names: Ponce de Leon, Alcazar, Cordova, Granada, San Marco, Barcelona, Valencia and St. George. Three things make St. Augustine preeminently the favorite winter resort of the Western Hemisphere: 1. its delightful climate; 2. its great antiquity and Spanish relics; and 3. its palatial hotels unsurpassed in the world.