ZEMIS®, EPIC® Cigars & Tobacco Factory, Hacienda and Tropical Plantation, Epic® Cigars Boxes Factory.

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Zemis® Cigars, Tobacco & Natural Products, Epic® Cigars & Boxes Company founded by Bischoff Sylvain in June 2000 proposes to the foreign and local Tourists the visit of the of Zemis Cigars factory, conducted tour in Spanish, English and French. You can discover the manufacturing of Cigars completely hand-made Premium Cigars (Short Filler, Medium Filler Cigars) and Natural Wraps for Exportation, with the complete explanation about the Dominican Tobacco, about the Culture of the Tobacco, the Process of preparation-fermentation of the Tobacco leaves and its use in the Elaboration of Cigars.
The Premium and Original Brand Registered in the Dominican Republic are the Following: Zemis® Cigars, Epic® Cigars, Epic® Tobacco, Manoa®, Manoa Puff® and Keyif® the Pleasure Cigars.

The Traditional Cigars factory is situated in a Hacienda in the Cibao Valley on the lands of the most delicate Tobacco (Tierra del Tabaco más fino) Villa Gonzalez, World Capital of the Cigars. In a natural frame and exclusive the Hacienda is planted by Dominican Tobacco (Olor Dominicano, Piloto Cubano, Amarillo Parado as well as of a big variety of seeds of the species Nicotiana Tabacum and of Flowers, Fruit trees, decorative Plants. You can also visit a small ' Secador ' a Traditional Drying Ranch Tobacco which adjoins the seed companies.

You can visit a Botanical Garden of Exhibition which extends over more than 38 000 m ² within a Route will allow you to discover more than 1200 species of Flowers, Fruit trees, decorative Plants and tropical Trees which the largest part is endemic of the Dominican Republic, Island of Hispaniola ancient island of Quisqueya.

The Garden and the Factory fit within a Tropical Plantation of Lemons Lime , of Lemons Persia and of Plantains Bananas of 150 000 m² which counts a Tree nursery of Reproduction of Arboriculture and Floriculture of 22 000 m².

Zemis Company is since 2002 in the french Guide of the Routard translated in 9 languages and in the Guide Pratique Michelin Voyager since 2006, translated in 9 languages. The Cigars Factory and the Hacienda were the objects of a Report of TV5, Echappées Belles and France 3, Côté Jardin as well as multiple reports in French and foreign Magazines (Reviews).

Zemis is working with the Dominican Republic Tourism Ministry receiving the reporters, journalists and information officers.

We receive for several years the tourists of Fram Voyage the biggest french Tour operator with Marsans Voyages as well as local tour operators.

At the end of the Visit we propose on Sale the Cigars and Tobacco products of the Factory, Dominican Organic Coffee, the seeds and the plantations of the tropical species which can acclimatize in Europe or USA as well as original and Authentic Dominican crafts.

The Hacienda Cibao Viejo is an exemplary ecotouristic destination in the Valley of the Cibao, a spatial and temporal summary on a reducesurface of the Beauty and Wealth of the Botanical Heritage and Dominican Tobacco which make of the Dominican Republic the first one and the best World Producer of Cigars and Tobacco Products as well as the one of the 8 World Hotspots of the Biodiversity: far from Beaches and artificial tourist attractions, nested in the heart of the Valley of Cibao, if you are alone or in groups come to discover one concentrated of the Tobacco World, of Nature, of Authenticity, come to share the heat of his inhabitants.

The Visit is free and made by appointment phone or by e-mails, the Hacienda can receive Buses and possesses an ample parking lot.

directions: take a little track east off the street in «barrio de sica» (googlemaps coordinates: 19.523545, -70.782485), then after 450m, You will see the hacienda portal on your left (googlemaps coordinates: 19.523545, -70.782485)

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