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CUBAN CIGAR BRANDS
GISPERT CIGARS
Year of Foundation: 1845
Tobacco Country: Cuba
Tobacco Procedence: Vuelta Abajo
Cigar Factory: La Corona
La Corona was a pre-revolution Cuban cigar brand established in 1845. It was temporarily discontinued in the mid 1970's and later reintroduced in 1989 as an inexpensive machine-made Cuban cigar.
Comprised mild strength Cuban cigars using long filler tobacco from the Vuelta Abajo region.
La Corona had limited distribution in the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Hungary, etc. It was discontinued in 1999.
Coming from the biggest cigar factory in Cuba at the end of the 19th century, the firm kept on moving from hand to hand until it finally settled in the "Iron House" known with this name because of being the first building in Cuba with a framework in steel.
There is a non-Cuban cigar brand with the same name.
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