Ybor City Museum State Park

The exhibition hall involves the previous Ferlita Bakery initially La Joven Francesca working at 1818 ninth Avenue in the Ybor City Historic District. The pastry shop was known for creating cuban bread and its broilers are a piece of the exhibition hall shows covering the historical backdrop of the stogie business and the Latin people group from the 1880s through the 1930s. There is additionally an elaborate garden in the building accessible for rental after standard hours.

There is some civil argument about the genuine wellspring of "genuine" Cuban bread, with both Miami and Tampa, Florida guaranteeing to be the genuine home. The soonest U.S. pastry kitchen to deliver Cuban bread was doubtlessly La Joven Francesca pastry shop, built up in 1896 by the Sicilian-conceived Francisco Ferlita, a Cuban-Spanish-Italian settler.

Visit the Museum located in the 1923-time Ferlita Bakery, its lavish Mediterranean-style cultivate and the "casita," illustrative of a regular stogie specialist's family home. Check regularly for special events, programming refreshes and news on the numerous energizing exercises that the Museum and Society get ready for you. Training and research instruments help dynamic students, educators and students learn more about the part Ybor City played in Tampa's advancement and its notoriety for being the "Stogie Capital of the World."