Arturo Fuente, Sr., was only twenty-four-years old when he founded the company over 100 years old ago. Fuente was an immigrant from Cuba who migrated to the United States when founded the company back in the early twentieth century, in 1912 to be exact, in West Tampa, Florida. The prospering cigar company survived and thrived [...]
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Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with a Tampa Cigar
Wednesday, October 20th, 2010Tampa, Florida is known as the Cigar Capital of the World, thanks to the cigar rollers who immigrated to the area in the last century. Arturo Fuente is a third generation operator of his family cigar business. The legacy begins with his grandfather, who arrived from Cuba in 1902. By 1912, at the age of [...]
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