Saturday, May 7, 2011

A Cigar History Lesson



(Gordon Mott) I was finishing up a final walking tour of Habana Vieja, the old Spanish colonial section of Havana that is being restored, when I stopped in again at the Casa del Habano in the Conde de Villanueva hotel. I was looking for a small cigar to have before lunch, and I picked out a Bolivar Belicoso for a little more than six CUCs, the Cuban convertible peso. An older man came out of the lounge area, and we started talking about the cigars in his shop, the quality of the cigars and how busy they had been. Continued


Photo: Calle de Habana, Havana, Cuba circa 1900, photochrom, William Henry Jackson (Library of Congress).

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