“Smoking” Program
Activities
First Day
Arrive. Transfer to the Hotel. Lodging and dinner.
Second Day
Exit from Havana to Pinar del Rio with destination Viñales municipality· Observe the tobacco vegas cultivated under sun and low cloth.
- Receive technical information on tobacco production methods.
- Exchange with producers
- Visit Tobacco houses to dry off and to cure leaves
- Country Lunch
- Visit a workshop selection and classification of layers leaves.
- Lodging and dinnerat a local hotel (3 stars)
Third day
Transfer to the UBPC San Vicente
- Welcome to the UBPC for their president.
- Traveled for the UBPC.
- Exchange experiences with the producers
- Creole Lunch in Pinar del Rio
- Visits to the Workshop Niñita Valdés. Traveled by their areas. In the visit you can know how the layers are selected for capes will be use in Cigars.
- Visits to Vegueros tobaccos factory.
- Tasting a cigar in the Cigar House of Pinar del Rio
Return to Havana. Lodging and Dinner.
Fourth Day
- Visits to the Partagas´ Tobaccos factory
- Confers about Tobacco´s History and about the Cigar Commercialization
- Lunch
- Visits to “La Corona” Tobaccos factory
- Free afternoon
- Trip to the famous ceremony of the gunshot at 9 o’clock. When concluding dinner in “El Aljibe”.
- Transfer to the hotel.
Fifth Day
- Visit to the Cigars´ Museum.
- Visit to Romeo and Julieta tobaccos´ factory.
- Visit to Heroes of the Moncada tobaccos´s factory.
- Dinner at “La Cecila” . At the end return to the Hotel.
Sixth Day
- Free day for a city enjoyment and transfer to the airport in the afternoon.