Corrupción en Miami (Miami Vice) (1984) o CSI: Miami (2002), y de películas como Ace Ventura (1994), 2 fast, 2 furious (2003), Scarface (1983)… “Miami Beach es donde muere el neón”, dijo el cómico estadounidense Lenny Bruce, pero para hablar de su ambiente nocturno hacen falta más páginas. It’s only two kilometres long, but its sheer photogenic beauty has made it one of the most famous streets in the world. Ocean Drive, in Miami’s South Beach district, has been an open-air architectural museum of the Streamline Moderne style, a late American version of Art Deco, since the early 1920s. With nearly 900 listed historic buildings, from the intersection of 1st Street and South Pointe Drive to 15th Street and Lincoln Road, life here is livelier, more colourful and, for some, even more superficial. “Ocean Drive is one of the most significant Art Deco streets, especially in terms of villas, homes, hotels and res-taurants. I don’t know of such a concentration of Art Deco architec-ture in a relatively small, manageable space as this promenade,” explains Manuel Fontán del Junco, director of Museums and Exhibitions at the Fundación Juan March and curator of Art Deco. From the Colony Hotel of 1939, known for featuring in the series Dexter, to the Carlyle Hotel of 1941, the work of the German architect Richard Kiehnel, responsible for many of the buildings of this style in Miami. There are also other hotels such as the Leslie, Edison, Betsy or Clevelander, with its lively swimming pool. “It has a casual cheerfulness and a colour that the French Art Deco of the 1920s or that of New York or Chicago, which are more elegant, more indus-trial, more chrome, more mechanical, simply don’t have,” Fontán explains. Ocean Drive has become famous thanks to its architecture, but also because of its presence in film, television and fashion. Casa Casuarina can be found here, the former residence of Italian designer Gianni Versace, which was sold and convert-ed into a boutique hotel after his death in its famous doorway. It was also the setting for series such as Miami Vice (1984) or CSI: Miami (2002), and films like Ace Ventura (1994), 2 Fast, 2 Furious (2003), Scarface (1983)... “Miami Beach is where neon goes to die”, quipped the American comedian Lenny Bruce, but we’d need more pages here to do justice to its nightlife. ENG Casa Casuarina, la que fuera residencia del diseñador italiano Gianni Versace. // Casa Casuarina, the former residence of Italian designer Gianni Versace. © Ken Hayden Photography Hotel Carlyle. // Carlyle Hotel. © Peter Blottman Photography/Getty images Hotel Clevelander. // Clevelander Hotel. © Meinzahn/Getty Images