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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.
GaYBOR District Coalition in Historic Ybor City (/ ˈ ɡ eɪ b ɔːr / GAY-bor) is a nonprofit 501(c)(6) organization located within Ybor City in Tampa, Florida. It is an organization of LGBT bars, nightclubs, restaurants, shops, nonprofit organizations, throughout the West Coast of Central Florida, with its headquarters in Historic Ybor City.
The El Pasaje (also known as the Cherokee Club) is a historic site in Ybor City, Tampa, Florida.It was originally built in 1886 to house the offices for Vicente Martinez Ybor's companies as he planned Ybor City and then ran his cigar factory and other businesses.
L'Unione Italiana, (also known as The Italian Club), is a historic social society in Tampa's Ybor City neighborhood. [1] The group's building was designed by Tampa architect M. Leo Elliott . It is located at 1731 East Seventh Avenue.
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). The Immigrant World of Ybor City. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida. ISBN 0-8130-1630-4. Mormino, Gary (2005).
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.
Nicholas Chillura Nuccio (October 24, 1901 – August 26, 1989) was a two-time mayor of Tampa, Florida in the 1950s and 60s. He was the Tampa's first mayor of "Latin" (specifically Sicilian) descent, having been born and raised in the immigrant neighborhood of Ybor City.
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).