Español...............Previous Records........................

The followings are the present record holder & previous placed in the Guinness Book of Worlds Records..._

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November 21, 1994 - Madrid, Spain - the first attempt in record to make a odd size cigar, was Antonio Ravelo Villanueva, a cuban cigar maker living in Spain since 1971. He set the record with a cigar 2.35 meters (7 feet and 8 inches).

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June 7, 1995 - Manuel Guzman, 70, a former university professor who began making cigars as a youth, got to work after hearing that a cigar made in Madrid, Spain, had set a record length of 2.35 meters (slightly over 7 feet, 8 inches). After five days of rolling, cutting and shaping, Guzman now claims a new record -- a cigar stretching 2.9 meters (9 feet, 6 inches). His cigar was on display at Havana's Cigar Museum.

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Dec. 1st.1997 - William Collejo how recently (1996) rolled the world's longest cigar measuring 3.4 meters, it will have a place in the Guinness book of World records. Collejo, 66, made the amazing cigar in only four days in the Mario Alarcon Tobacco Factory in eastern Granma province(Cuba). And with his 50 years of experience in the art of cigar making, Collejo reiterated that the cigar was made with the utmost quality, like all the cigars the master cigar-maker rolls.

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Feb. 2000 -Jose Castelar Cairo (Cueto) get a new record with a cigar measuring 11.04 meters in Havana, Cuba Expo.

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Nov. 2003 - HAVANA, CUBA (CNN) -Jose Castelar Cairo, he broke his own record with a cigar 14.86 meters long, and obtained the Guinness Worlds Record title.

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February 2004 - HAVANA, CUBA (CNN) Jose Castelar Cairo, learned in early 2004 when his cigar was officially recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest cigar ever hand rolled. A cigar roller from Havana, Cairo made the record books by rolling the cigar to an ending length of 14.86 meters. With this achievement, he broke his own previously held records.But his lengthy creation is for viewing, not smoking. It's on display at Havana's Cigar Museum.

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January, 2005 - Patricio Peña rolled the cigar -- measuring 62 feet, five inches (19.03 meters) -- at a vegetable market in Puerto Rico's capital in January and it has been hanging there in a plastic case ever since with a sign declaring it the world's longest. The sign doesn't lie, now that London-based Guinness sent him confirmation.

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April 6, 2005 - Jose Castelar (Cuba) hand-rolled a cigar measuring 20.41m (66ft. 11.8 in) long at the Havana's Convention Centre, Havana, Cuba. Renowned Cuban cigar roller, Jose Castelar, has received a certificate recognizing a Guinness record for the longest cigar in the world, at 66ft. 11.8 inches (20.41m). He had previously established two marks in the famous record book when he rolled a 11.04 meters Havana cigar in 2000. Later, in 2003, he broke his own record with a cigar 14.86 meters long. Cueto established his latest record last year, during the Habano Festival that takes place every year in the Cuban capital.

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- New Record Holder -

November 18, 2006 - (Tampa, Florida USA) The longest hand made cigar measured 101 feet (30.78 meters) long was made by Wallace Reyes (USA), during the 11th Edition of the "Cigar Heritage Festival" in Tampa, (USA), on 18 November 2006. (View Certificate)

The master cigar maker of Tampa received the Guinness title after assembling the "Longest Cigar in the World", in front of hundreds of people in the festival. The cigar weight 53.8, and was made with selected tobacco leafs from Honduras, Dominican Republic, and Ecuador with a cost in materials of over $3,500.00 US dollars. During the assembling of the cigar, Mr. Reyes was assisted by his wife Margarita, and around 14 specially train team of volunteers. Present in the event was the Major of Tampa, Hon. Pam Aorio, Arturo Fuentes, Sr., and many other city officials.

Arturo Fuentes, Jr. served as a witness and judge by default after the Guinness representative had a family emergency and could not make the trip. At 5:36 PM the cigar was completed, and at 5:40 PM the judges took the measurements.

Also present assisting Mr. Fuentes was the Ybor City Chamber of Commerce President Tom Keating and officer Dean Uno, Master Patrol Officer of the Tampa Police Department, they served as judges and witnesses. On December 18th of 2006 Guinness confirm the new world record.

At the end, took 76 hours and 36 minutes of work and (15 days),and also at the present time is the most expensive single cigar ever made $ 5,100.00 (US dollars), and a new world record.

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Last Update: 01.21.07