CasitaYbor

CasitaYbor Casita Ybor - Historic 2/1 - Newly renovated Casita In the Ybor City Historic District, a National Landmark

12/21/2023
01/17/2023
01/06/2023

The Gasparilla Pirate Festival, boat parade, and fireworks display returns this January, and the Tampa tradition only gets better.

01/06/2023

The Florida Museum of Photographic Arts announced it will move from its downtown Tampa space to a new venue in Ybor City.

This is our closest station to the trolley   The trolley is free of charge.  One of the stops is the Publix Super Market...
12/29/2022

This is our closest station to the trolley The trolley is free of charge. One of the stops is the Publix Super Market stop.

11/30/2022

Black Friday Annual Pass Sale

11/30/2022
10/26/2022

The city of Tampa continues to earn accolades, and it was just named one of the top cities to celebrate Halloween in America.

10/03/2022

2023 Artist Application Now accepting artist applications for the 2023 Festival, to be held March 4 & 5, 2023. The application deadline is October 7, 2022. Apply Today Festival Rules Eligibility and Attendance  Artists participating in the Gasparilla Festival of the Arts (the “Festival”) must b...

10/03/2022

Our thoughts go out to all the communities impacted by . Brighter days are ahead ☀️

10/03/2022

This couple was kind enough to let me take their picture as I was walking by. Talk about living life to the fullest! Do something today to take advantage of all the opportunities to create an awesome experience. Enjoy The Day!

10/03/2022

Sometimes you just have to sit back and enjoy the view. 😎

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05/04/2022
04/23/2022

CasitaYbor is a contributing structure to Ybor City’s designation as a National Historic District and a National Landmark. It was built in 1918 as company housing for cigar workers. Ybor City was established in 1885 as a cigar-manufacturing town. By the “Roaring Twenties”, Ybor City was known as the “Cigar Capital of the World’’.

04/23/2022
To know CasitaYbor is to know the history of Ybor City because CasitaYbor is a contributing structure to Ybor City’s des...
04/21/2022

To know CasitaYbor is to know the history of Ybor City because CasitaYbor is a contributing structure to Ybor City’s designation as a National Historic District and a National Landmark.

CasitaYbor was built in 1918 as company housing for cigar workers. In fact, Ybor City itself was established in 1885 as a cigar-manufacturing town. By the “Roaring Twenties”, Ybor City was known as the “Cigar Capital of the World” producing the highest-quality, hand-rolled ci**rs in the world and with a reputation even surpassing that of ci**rs made in Havana. Ybor City was also unique in the South: It was a prosperous and diverse community built almost entirely by Cuban immigrants, but also settled by Spanish, Italian, German, Chinese, and Romanian Jews.

Sadly, Ybor City began to decline during the Great Depression, deteriorating greatly by the middle of the 20th Century. Fortunately, heritage preservation efforts began around 1965 followed by economic development efforts in the 1980’s when Ybor City began its comeback as a historic neighborhood.

Today, Ybor City is again a diverse and friendly urban community within the City of Tampa. It has a distinct architectural, cultural and historical legacy, restaurants, art galleries, bars, clubs, museums, music venues, festivals, parks, parades, vintage stores, cigar bars and stores, markets, hotels, a college campus and many historically preserved buildings. We even have a streetcar line that takes passengers to the Channelside District and Downtown Tampa.

In 2013, Ybor City resident and visionary, Jose Cayon, purchased CasitaYbor for $8,800.00. It had long been unoccupied and boarded-up when he began a years-long labor of love to rehabilitate CasitaYbor consistent with its historic character. The renovation of the kitchen and the bathroom reflect a more modern approach as those areas were added in 1956. Prior to 1956, any cooking was done outside. The bathroom was an outhouse.

When Mr. Cayon completed CasitaYbor, he did not offer it in the open market. Instead, he turned to a person who had shared his vision. She still owns CasitaYbor and welcomes amazing people like you from the United States and around the world to Ybor City and CasitaYbor.

04/20/2022
04/17/2022

Among Tampa's modern buildings and skyline sits a collection of buildings that time has forgotten. Spend A Day in Tampa's Ybor City.

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2319 E 12th Avenue
Tampa, FL
33605

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