CIGAR ODYSSEY

Pays-Bas

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General Data

Capital
Amsterdam
Population
18,0 M (2024)
Area
41 543 km²
Currency
Euro (EUR)
Language
Dutch
Timezone
UTC+1
GDP
1 220 Md$ (2024)
Independence
1581 (Union of Utrecht); kingdom in 1815

Production

A single workshop still making by hand — Culemborg

Annual Revenue

No figures: Van der Donk sells to some forty Dutch shops. The rest of the country — Kampen, Eindhoven, Agio, De Olifant — is machine-made cigars, outside this atlas.

Manufacturers

Sommelier Note

The Netherlands rolled cigars from the late eighteenth century, with Java and Sumatra tobacco from their colonies; around 1850 almost every town had its small factories, and Kampen counted more than a hundred and twenty. What remains is a machine industry and one Culemborg workshop still working by hand, with no successor announced. This atlas opens it for that one — a rolling place, not a growing country.

Iconic Brands 1

Cigar caves & lounges in Pays-Bas 4

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