Emerald Coast beaches, the Blue Angels home base and Florida's most historic city on the Gulf
Pensacola sits on the Florida Panhandle where powder-white quartz sand meets the Gulf of Mexico — the clearest beach water in Florida. Home of the Blue Angels flight demonstration squadron at NAS Pensacola, the National Naval Aviation Museum, and a Historic District of brick streets earned the city its nickname 'City of Five Flags' for the five nations that ruled it.
Pensacola is one of the oldest European settlements in the continental United States — a Spanish colonial town founded in 1559, predating St. Augustine, and passed between Spain, France, Britain, the Confederate States, and the US over three centuries. The National Naval Aviation Museum at NAS Pensacola is the world's largest naval aviation museum and home to the Blue Angels, the US Navy's flight demonstration squadron.