With thousands of cigar experts and lovers worldwide, the 10th Habano Festival, the largest global meeting of premium cigars, is kicking off Monday in this capital.
The opening ceremony will take place at Karl Marx Theater and the Habana Club recreational center, where participants will show cigar novelties.
Planned to exchange criteria between tobacconists and handmade cigar traders, this kind of event also has a great impact to foster the Cuban cigar.
The beginnings included promotion dinners like that carried out in 1994 in Havana’s Las Ruinas restaurant, and a year later participants delivered for a first time the Cigar Man of the Year prize, now called the Habano Award.
This gathering is made up of several events, among them a trade fair, talks, conferences, meetings, tasting trials, visits to tobacco plantations and factories, as well as the contests like Habanos-Armagnac and Habanosommelier.
However, the center of the event is in the final day or closing dinner, where there will a humidor auction with very special cigars and the granting of the Habano Award.
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