The Romanian Golden Age with Portorico

The tobacco factory, one of the most impressive industrial monuments of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, has come back to life. It also inspired the choice of name for the brand new event, the Tabakó Festival, which took place on the first days of September on the premises of the factory, and the owner municipality wants to confer the building, completed in 1907, other attractive identities. One of the important tobacco-producing areas in the former Trei Scaune was the village of Simeria, which in time merged with Sfântu Gheorghe, so it was almost a natural choice to build a modern processing facility on the border between the two settlements, which had been operating since 1897. Another strong economic policy argument that "lobbied" for the establishment of the factory was to reduce the alarming immigration of Szeklers at that time by employing a significant number of women. The great cigar favourites of the era, Trabucos, Britanica, Cuba, and Portorico, were produced here, but more discerning cigar smokers could also choose between cork-ended, gilded, or mouthpiece-shaped cigarettes. Later on, a significant number of smokers identified the capital of the county on the map by the cigarettes Carpați, Mărășești, and Național.

The visitor centre and the plans to create a science play house similar to “Futura” in Mosonmagyaróvár in Hungary will make the old tobacco factory one of the town's new attractions.