Tobacco & cigars
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Our story
Since 1928, the shop of Gaibanella.
Tabaccheria Mascellani was founded in 1928 in Gaibanella, a hamlet of Ferrara, as a salt-and-tobacco shop. The family has run it since 1937 and is now in its third generation, with daughter Emma as owner since 2016. Over the years it has also been a trattoria, café, grocer's and petrol station, a compulsory stop on the Mille Miglia.
"We always say: alone we would be nothing, but together we are everything." Francesco Mascellani
In the 1940s it was also a small stage: a customer who sang tenor would dedicate the arias of Puccini's Tosca to the owner, Tosca. Today, alongside state-monopoly goods, the shop sells groceries and stationery and provides the village's everyday services; it still preserves the 1940 banned-games chart and an original cigar cutter.
