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Ybor City
Neighborhood in Hillsborough County, Florida, US

Ybor City

Ybor City is a historic neighborhood just northeast of downtown Tampa, Florida, United States.

Plan a trip to Ybor City→From Sarasota/Bradenton

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. For the next 50 years, workers in Ybor City's cigar factories rolled hundreds of millions of cigars annually.

Get in

Getting to Ybor City

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  1. 01
    Tampa International Airport
  2. 02
    Saint Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport
  3. 03
    Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport
See

Worth seeing

  1. 01
    Channel District

    The Channel District has many shops, restaurants, and is one of the beginnings of the Tampa River Walk.

  2. 02
    Florida Aquarium

    701 Channelside Drive (Channelside district, just east of downtown),.

  3. 03
    Tampa Museum of Art

    Gasparilla Plaza (downtown Tampa on the Hillsborough river), main), +1 813 421-8380 (tickets).

  4. 04
    Tampa Theatre

    Opened in 1926 in downtown, the Tampa Theatre is a historic movie palace featuring a wide range of independent, foreign, and documentary films on a daily basis.

  5. 05
    University of Tampa

    Built at the turn of the 20th century as the Tampa Bay Hotel by railroad magnate H.B.

  6. 06
    Tampa Convention Center

    Franklin St (On southeast corner of Channelside Dr.

Do

Things to do

Walking tour of Ybor City — Every Saturday at 10:30AM, the Ybor City State Museum offers a 60-minute walking tour of Ybor City highlighting the cigar industry's impact on the area, historic cottages/businesses, and tours of the YC State Museum & YC Cigar Museum. The $6 cost includes both museum entrance fees. Longer tours are available by appointment Tu-Th for $12.

  1. 01
    Adventure Island

    Water park adjoining Busch Gardens, combined or single admission with the main park is available., 2 Sky Zone Tampa.

  2. 02
    Ace Golf/Pebble Creek Golf Club

    10550 Regents Park Drive,.

  3. 03
    Babe Zaharias Golf Course

    11412 Forest Hills Drive,.

  4. 04
    Bloomingdale Golfers Club

    4113 Great Golfers Place, fax: +1 813 654-1227.

  5. 05
    Emerald Greens Golf Resort and Country Club

    13941 Clubhouse Drive, toll-free: +1-866-974-7336, fax: +1 813 961-9424.

  6. 06
    TPC Tampa Bay

    5300 W.

Eat

Where to eat

  1. 01
    Bo's Ice Cream

    Very close to Lowry Park Zoo at Florida & Sligh.

  2. 02
    Carmine's Restaurant

    1802 E 7th Ave.

  3. 03
    Cappy's Pizza

    Between MLK and Hillsborough on Florida Avenue.

  4. 04
    Hattrick's

    In downtown Tampa, chow down on wings, mozzarella sticks and other dishes while watching the Tampa Bay Lightning play against their rivals.

  5. 05
    The Jerk Hut

    Don't be put off by the name - "jerk" is a Jamaican term for slow-roasting meats.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.