“MAFIA TOUR OF TAMPA” – YBOR CITY 

Activity Level: 3                                                                                         

Ybor City has more gangland haunts and hangouts than any other part of the city, and appropriately so, since it was where the bolita syndicate started and ran their operations for most of the early years of Tampa’s history.

Scott M. Deitche, author of 5 books on the mob including Cigar City Mafia and The Silent Don: The Criminal Underworld of Santo Trafficante Jr., will lead an hour and a half long jaunt through Tampa’s Mafia history. The tour will take you to old gambling palaces, street corners and alleys where some mobsters met their demise, and restaurants where wise guys like famed boss Santo Trafficante Jr. held court. Santo Trafficante, Jr. succeeded his father as the boss of Tampa and ruled his family with an iron fist. Despite numerous stunted ambitions, he was regarded as one of the most powerful mob bosses of the American Mafia. Trafficante was known to have been deeply involved in the CIA efforts to involve the underworld in assassination attempts on Fidel Castro and was called to testify before members of the United States House Select Committee on Assassinations investigating possible links between Lee Harvey Oswald and anti-Castro Cubans, including the theory that Castro had President John F. Kennedy killed in retaliation for the CIA’s attempts to assassinate Castro.
Join us for this one-of-a-kind walk through Tampa’s most storied neighborhood. They guarantee you will never look at Ybor City the same way again.                    

After the tour, enjoy lunch on your own at one of the many restaurants in Ybor City.

WEAR COMFORTABLE SHOES – THIS IS A WALKING TOUR.

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