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The
present day manufactory produces sigars
by means of modern machinery...
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The production
of tobacco was formerly one of the
most important aspects of Tuscan agriculture.
Nowadays most tobacco leaves are imported
but a century old tradition of cigar
making is still very alive in the area.
Arianna & Friends brings you to Lucca
at the Manifatture Tabacchi Toscano, where
you have the possibility to visit the premises
of a large tobacco processing company with
a responsible. In a very interesting two-hour
tour you will go through the stages
of the manufacturing, the short-term and
the long-term storage, up to the packaging
and shipping. A section of the factory is
still dedicated to hand-made cigars
like those women used to do up to some decades
ago. After the visit we organize an intense
cigar tasting, in which the smoking
of 3 different kinds of cigar will be accompanied
by some rum and chocolate. After the tobacco
tour there is the possibility to visit the
town Lucca with its beautiful old center
and its huge town walls.
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