The Hernandez/Gonzmart family opened the landmark Columbia Restaurant in Tampa's historic Ybor City in 1905. Today, it’s Florida’s Oldest Restaurant℠ and the world's largest Spanish restaurant.

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The colorful mosaic-tiled fountain in the Patio Dining Room has a statue in the middle called "Arion and the Dolphin.” The family commissioned this statue, a replica of a sculpture found in the ruins of Pompeii, in 1937, the same year they built the Patio Dining Room.

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For more than 70 years, as sunlight shines overhead through the skylight roof, The Columbia’s fountain and balcony provide a colorful background to countless happy occasions, including engagements, wedding receptions, birthdays and anniversary celebrations.