Orlando, Florida, is a city of roughly 320,000 residents and the seat of Orange County — a Central Florida community straddling the I-4 corridor whose character has been shaped as much by its identity as the theme park capital of the world as by its position at the heart of a genuinely extraordinary lake-studded landscape whose combination of the Chain of Lakes waterway, the Loch Haven cultural corridor, and the warmly activated neighborhoods of Thornton Park and Mills Avenue give it a civic life considerably more serious and considerably more satisfying than its reputation as a tourist destination would ever lead a visitor to expect. The sights here reward attention: Loch Haven Park delivers a genuinely extraordinary concentration of cultural institutions — the Orlando Museum of Art, the Orlando Science Center, and the Mennello Museum of American Art sitting within walking distance of one another on a beautifully maintained lakefront campus — and Lake Eola Park delivers a downtown lakefront experience of genuine natural beauty and community warmth that makes every Sunday morning farmers market feel like the most completely justified part of the week.