Bacardi, the world’s largest privately held, family-owned spirits company, started producing rum in Santiago way back in 1862. The family fled Cuba after the revolution in 1959 although the company’s current production sales exceed 240 million bottles a year in 170 countries. Emilio Bacardi’s private art and antique collection is still in Santiago as is the original family rum distillery. It was the fruit bats that nested in the rafters of the original rum factory that gave Bacardi rum its world-famous bat logo.
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