The cigar is a cylinder of dried, fermented and rolled tobacco leaves, which can be smoked.
It is very probable that the first tobacco plants were discovered by the first Europeans on the island of Santo
Domingo, but the plant was present throughout the Caribbean archipelago. The tobacco used for cigars
it is grown in significant quantities in nations such as Brazil, Cameroon, Cuba, Republic
Dominican Republic, Honduras, Indonesia, Mexico, Nicaragua and the United States of America.
Cigars made in Cuba have long been considered unparalleled, thanks to the area's unique microclimate
Vuelta Abajo in the province of Pinar del Río in the west of the island, where a tobacco of
very high quality imported into the island (which originally had a very strong and acrid variety), and
worked thanks to the skill and experience of the cigar manufacturers.
After the 1959 revolution, the cigar manufactories were nationalized and this resulted in the massive
emigration of almost all the more experienced managers and a good part of the skilled workers at the time of
nearby island of Santo Domingo, as well as in Nicaragua and Honduras, countries which, until then, had been
completely marginal in the manufacture and marketing of cigars.
The Cuban government partially recovered this situation of very serious crisis and today Cuba is once again considered
by many a place of excellence for various Vitolas products, while still enduring the fierce competition
quantitative and qualitative of Santo Domingo and, in part, of Honduras and Nicaragua. In Europe they are
the manufactures of the Netherlands and Germany were considered to be of a good level, but also Italy, with its
various types of Tuscan cigars. (source Wikipedia)


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