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El Circulo Cubano can trace its history back to an earlier organization called El Club Nacional Cubano which was founded October 10, 1899. [3] The organization changed its name to El Círculo Cubano in 1902 with the goal of a being a fraternal organization of Cubans in Tampa and to assist each other and help with medical care like other mutual aid societies in the city. [3]
La Segunda Central Bakery is a purveyor of Cuban bread, pastries, and other baked goods in the historic neighborhood of Ybor City in Tampa, Florida. It was founded in 1915 as part of a co-op of three bakeries in the Ybor City area: La Primera , La Segunda and La Tercera (literally the First, the Second, and the Third).
Columbia Restaurant is a restaurant in Ybor City, Tampa, Florida. It is the oldest continuously operated restaurant in Florida, [2] as well as the oldest Spanish restaurant in the United States. [3] The 15 dining rooms cover 52,000 ft seating 1,700 customers. It is the largest Spanish restaurant in the world and occupies an entire city block.
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The first such group to be founded in Ybor City was El Centro Español de Tampa, in 1891. Its membership primarily consisted of Galician and Asturian cigarmakers. After El Centro Español, other clubs founded included the Italian L'Unione Italiana (1894), [ 7 ] the Centro Asturiano , [ 8 ] and the Cuban El Club Nacional Cubano (1899).
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Ybor City (/ ˈ iː b ɔːr / EE-bor) [2] is a historic neighborhood just northeast of downtown Tampa, Florida, United States.It was founded in the 1880s by Vicente Martinez-Ybor and other cigar manufacturers and populated by thousands of immigrants, mainly from Cuba, Spain, and Italy.
Ybor's cigar factory, c. 1902 Restored casitas (homes for cigar workers in the late 1800s) at the Museum, Ybor City, Tampa. In mid-1886, a large fire in Key West destroyed much of the town and brought hundreds of Cuban and Spanish cigar workers to Tampa seeking employment. This influx began a period of steady growth that would continue for decades.