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Casa Bacardí Visitor Center
Casa Bacardí Visitor Center (Bay View Industrial Park, Rte. 165, Km 2.6, at Rte. 888, Cataño,)– Exiled from Cuba, the Bacardí family built a small rum distillery here in the 1950s. Today it’s the world’s largest, with the capacity to produce 100,000 gallons of spirits a day and 21 million cases a year. You can hop on a little tram to take an approximately 45-minute tour of the visitor center, though you don’t visit the distillery itself. Yes, you’ll be offered a sample. If you don’t want to drive, you can reach the factory by taking the ferry from Pier 2 for 50¢ each way and then a público (public van service) from the ferry pier to the factory for about $2 or $3 per person.