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Fifth Avenue South, Third Street South, Old Naples, Bayshore. Small distances, very different afternoons.

A palm-lined shopping street in Naples, Florida with pastel storefronts, awnings and brick pavement in warm evening light

Fifth Avenue South vs Third Street South: Two Streets, Four Blocks Apart, Nothing Alike

Visitors are told to see Fifth Avenue. Locals will tell you Third Street. They are a four-minute walk apart and they are running entirely different programmes.

December 12, 2025

A white clapboard cottage with green shutters behind a picket fence, framed by palms on a quiet Old Naples street

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Old Naples on Foot: The Grid, the Banyans and the Avenues to the Gulf

The oldest part of town is about twenty blocks, entirely flat, and laid out so that every street ends in the Gulf of Mexico.

November 6, 2025