The hand-rolled cigar trade faded by the middle of the twentieth century as machines and changing tastes took over, and Ybor went quiet for a while. But the brick survived, and from the 1980s the district came back as a National Historic Landmark, its factories and social clubs reborn as a cultural quarter. Modern Tampa runs on a deepwater port, a working downtown and Riverwalk, and the long curve of Bayshore Boulevard along the bay — a Gulf Coast city still proud of the immigrants who built it.
Tampa is Cigar City — a Fort Brooke frontier post that immigrant tabaqueros turned into the cigar capital of the world, crowned with silver minarets and guarded, once a year, by pirates. Our Tampa designs gather that into wearable form. Wear Cigar City. Cigar City. Rolled by hand since 1885.
Why People Visit Tampa
Tampa draws travelers who want real heritage with Gulf sunshine — the brick-and-cigar history of Ybor's Latin Quarter, the fairy-tale minarets of Plant's hotel, the bay and the Riverwalk, and a pirate festival unlike anywhere else. It is a city that wears its immigrant, working-waterfront story openly, an easy gateway to the Gulf beaches just across the bay.
