Top 5 Most Romantic Cities

WHO ELSE: Just about every A-list star has “done” South Beach, and some have done it together. Will and Jada Pinkett Smith, Jay-Z and Beyoncé Knowles, J. Lo and Ben, J. Lo and Marc, J. Lo and–

[Let’s give Ms. Lopez a break here; at least she’s out there emotionally, unlike some we could name. –Ed.]

ONLY IN MIAMI CAN YOU … rollerblade along a major thoroughfare in a string bikini without
anyone batting an eyelash.

New Orleans by Dana Tierney

I’d been carrying a torch for a man too long, so one day I flew from New York to New Orleans and sat in the peeling courtyard of the Napoleon House drinking Pimm’s Cups and getting patted on the head by an enormous palmetto leaf. I was staying at the Soniat House on Chartres Street, sleeping in a four-poster bed, enjoying the lush solitude in the least lonely city in America.With its lacy architecture and neglected plaster and frolicking drunks being gently ignored by properly dressed snobs, New Orleans is beguiling in its self-love, both alluring to lovers and comforting to the stranger. Its position near the mouth of the wide Mississippi, its pirate, aristocrat, and polyglot founders, its ebullient party atmosphere
and undertow of voodoo, all give it a loose, wild, fragrant, and laughter-filled atmosphere exemplified by the French Quarter, usually considered the city’s center.