The Biltmore Hotel is a national historic landmark located in the exclusive Coral Gables area. The 271-room resort includes 174 suites and features spectacular Mediterranean architecture with classic Italian, Moorish, and Spanish influences spread over 150 acres of tropical landscape. A favorite of world leaders and celebrities since its opening in 1926, the hotel offers a restored Donald Ross 18-hole, 71-par championship golf course; tennis courts; the largest hotel pool on the East Coast of the United States with private cabanas; a European spa and a renowned fitness center. The hotel’s dining destinations include a traditional Italian restaurant; the poolside Cascade, the 19th Hole golf-centric restaurant, and culinary academy offering an array of hands-on cooking classes. The Biltmore is one of South Florida's preferred sites for leisure and business travel, high-level corporate briefings and public policy conferences. The resort features 75,000 total square feet of function space, with an entire wing devoted exclusively to small meetings and breakouts. A total of 24 meeting spaces, 11 in the hotel, 13 in the Conference Center of the Americas. Meeting spaces include 3 ballrooms, the largest is 6,200 square feet with a 46-foot ceiling and 11,280 square feet of outdoor banquet space. The Conference Center of the America enjoys its own lovely, historic Spanish-style building with an impressive courtyard, ideal for both meetings and social gatherings set apart from the hotel.