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1818 East 9th Avenue
Tampa, FL 33605
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+1 813 247 6323
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Neighborhood :
Ybor City
http://www.ybormuseum.org - Mon to Sun from 09:00 AM to 05:00 PM
A century ago, here in the Latin Quarter of Tampa, cigarmaker Vincente Martinez Ybor began an industry that brought this city worldwide renown—those famed Tampa cigars. Here, too, poet and patriot Jose Marti, the hero of Cuban liberation, plotted and pleaded for his cause. History surrounds you in Ybor City where one thing seems hardly to have changed at all in a century—a strong sense of pride in community and culture. You can learn more about all that in this museum where the past is chronicled in yellowing pages, spidery script and cigar bands. It's poignant, stirring and just a little sad. Ybor City's far from sad these days, however. It's in the midst of a renaissance, the likes of which it hasn't seen for many years. Now the streets rock on weekends, and the fiesta goes on and on and on, well into the wee hours.
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Trekaroo Reviews
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Ybor (EE-bore) City was founded by Vincente Martínez Ybor. This Spanish entrepreneur began the city’s cigar industry there in 1886. The politic...
In Preservation Park you can see how cigar factory workers once lived. La Casita, circa 1895, is a furnished “shotgun” cottage (for its straigh...
Trip Advisor Reviews
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“A great narrated museum & walking tour”
This 2 hour ( $6/person) narrated walking tour of the Ybor City Museum and historic immigrant ( Cuban, Spanish, Sicilian, Italian, German) city...
“Very nice museum”
If you like history, this is a nice little museum. Small but gives a good history of the settling of this historic district. The tour was given...
CitySearch Reviews
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very interesting by Cortney H. at InsiderPages
I took some of my family to the Ybor City State Museum and went on the tour of Ybor. They do not charge a lot of money for the tour and you le...
Ybor City State Museum by Mary H. at InsiderPages
Ybor City State Museum tells the history of the Ybor aera. The complex includes an ornamental garden and three restored cigar worker's houses....
he Ybor City State Museum by Jennifer M. at InsiderPages
Ybor City State Museum The Ybor City State Museum complex includes an ornamental garden and three restored cigar worker's houses. One house, La...
Get back to Ybor's old-school history at this cultural center.
The Goods Housed in the old Ferlita Bakery building, this museum is registered on the list of historic places. Small, and not very impress
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