Disney Springs
Sprawling waterfront dining and shopping district styled as a century-old Florida boomtown around a spring.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Disney Springs in Orlando debunks the invented legend of a pioneer rancher who supposedly founded a spring-side settlement here, then traces what actually happened: the site's 1975 opening as Lake Buena Vista Shopping Village, the Empress Lilly riverboat named for Walt Disney's wife, and Pleasure Island, the adults-only nightclub district that ran here for nearly two decades. It follows the ground through its later changes on the way to the district you're walking through now. Listen for how much of what looks century-old here was invented from scratch.
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