Things to do in Tampa,  Tampa  -  Attractions

• Tampa's Cigar Heritage Festival
  Once the capital of the world, thousands converged at the Ybor City Museum State Park to celebrate the annual Cigar Heritage Festival. Cybor's rich cigar history is what developed this city into a modern metropolitan district burgeoning with life.  Highlighted at the festival will include vendors such as Cigars and Stars II, Shop the finest cigars, cigar accessories, cigar rolling, domino tournament, live entertainment, charity beer garden, cultural food vendors, and much more. 
  
  
• Ybor City Museum
  Consisting of the Ferita Bakery Building, the Casita, and the Garden, Vicente Martinez built his empire on the lucrative cigar business established by Italian immigrants. Permanent exhibits of Martinez, early history of Ybor, cigar industry, social clubs, and Ferita Bakery are currently available for viewing. Ongoing changes have been occurring to the Museum's space a couple of times a year. Items can be purchased at the museum's store reflecting the ethnic heritage, cigar trade and the site's history. Representing some of the earliest structures around is the Casita built in 1895 for cigar worker's families. As part of a preservation initiative, the Ferita Bakery, and other community structures were moved to their current location in 1976. In the early nineteen hundreds these Casitas rented for $1.50 to $2.50 a week and could be purchased from $400 and up.
  
  
• Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo
  Tampa's number one animal zoo in the U.S., it draws thousands of families to view the many exotic animals there are now extinct in the world. Designed to enhance the quality of life for endangered species at Tampa Bay, it is the region's only dedicated zoological garden in all of Florida. An affordable leisure destination, it is a natural outdoor exhibit that houses more than 1,800 animals from Florida. Other exhibits include