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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.
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.
There are 100 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county, including 3 National Historic Landmarks, all three of which are in Tampa. 22 of these properties and districts are listed here, while the others are listed separately in National Register of Historic Places listings in Tampa, Florida.
The Ybor City Historic District (/ ˈ iː b ɔːr / EE-bor) [3] is a U.S. National Historic Landmark District (designated as such on December 14, 1990) located in Ybor City, Tampa, Florida. The district is bounded by 6th Avenue, 13th Street, 10th Avenue and 22nd Street, East Broadway between 13th and 22nd Streets.
Ybor City: The Making of a Landmark Town. University of Tampa Press. ISBN 1-59732-003-X. Leto, Emanuel (2001). Fraternidad: The Mutual Aid Societies of Ybor City. Tampa, FL: Ybor City Museum Society. Leto, Emanuel (2002). Hecho a Mano: Cigar Making in Tampa and Ybor City. Tampa, FL: Ybor City Museum Society. Mormino, Gary (1998).
Roughly bounded by Florida Avenue and East Fortune, Tampa, Franklin, and East Harrison Streets 27°57′15″N 82°27′37″W / 27.954167°N 82.460278°W / 27.954167; -82.460278 ( North Franklin Street Historic
No. 12: A new Asian restaurant is headed to a shopping center in a key Columbia commercial district. The restaurant, which has locations across the U.S., offers sushi, ramen and more. | Published ...
The central Tampa area now known as V.M. Ybor, a National Historic Landmark District and now part of the local historic district Barrio Latino, was settled soon after Ybor City was founded in 1885. Ybor City itself was annexed by the city of Tampa in 1887. The "V.M." in the name stands for "Vicente Martinez", as in Vicente Martinez Ybor, the ...