Did you know that Ybor City is known as the Cigar Capital of the United States? At one time, the city boasted 200 cigar factories with 12,000 tabaqueros (cigar makers) producing an estimated 700 million cigars a year! Today, retro electric street cars link Ybor City with the Port of Tampa and the adjacent Florida Aquarium in downtown Tampa.
One of Florida's most interesting state parks is located in Ybor City — Ybor City Museum State Park. It's a great place to spend a couple of hours taking the self-guided tour of the bakery-turned-museum and the guided casita tour. If you're wondering, what's a casita? Casitas are tiny houses where the immigrant cigar workers lived on their meager salaries.
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There is a fabulous little cigar bar in St Augustine, right below the Alehouse by the bridge of lions. They have guitars hanging on the walls and you can just take them down for an inpromptu jam session. Its a little hard to find because you cannot access it directly from the street, but definitely worth seeking out!!!!!
You must mean Stogies Jazz Bar on Charlotte Street? Not that I’m in to cigars, but it sounds like an interesting and fun place.
Well it is so nice to learn that there is cigar area that caters to smoking people… Cigar is a very dangerous thing especially to the kids so there should really be an exclusive place for them to do it.