The Gasparilla Pirate Festival is a large annual parade, with a variety of related pirate-themed community events, held in Tampa every January. The festival is named after a legendary Florida ...

Ashley Children’s Gasparilla Parade presented by Chick-fil-A kicks off the festivities on January 18, while adults will celebrate the season at the Seminole Hard Rock Gasparilla Pirate Fest on ...

Arrr, Gasparilla 2025 is days away, mateys! The Gasparilla Pirate Festival is a very popular annual parade with a variety of related pirate-themed community events, and it's held in Tampa every ...

Pirates are temporarily taking over downtown Tampa to celebrate Gasparilla, an annual pirate-themed festival. Known as the city's "signature event," Gasparilla was named after famed Florida pirate ...

For more than 100 years, city leaders have held the signature Gasparilla event to draw visitors with a day of pirates and a parade of buccaneers. It borrows heavily from Mardi Gras, from beads to ...

featuring the 106th Gasparilla Invasion and Parade of the Pirates presented by Ye Mystic Krewe of Gasparilla. The Children’s events begin a week earlier, Jan. 20. On Bayshore Boulevard ...

A society editor for the Tampa Tribune first came up with the idea for a pirate-themed festival in 1904. The early members of Ye Mystic Krewe of Gasparilla planned to surprise citizens with a mock ...

The family version of the Gasparilla pirate invasion gave kids their own parade on Saturday, along with an air show, bike rodeo and fireworks in the chilly weather. Paradegoers stick out their ...

Calling all of Tampa Bay's littlest pirates! Before the adults have their big Gasparilla celebration, the kids get to shine at their very own parade. Events surrounding the 2024 Children's ...

Gasparilla Pirate Fest is set for Saturday, Jan. 28. Whether you're a seasoned parade-goer or new to the Tampa Bay area, here's everything you need to know about Gasparilla 2023. 11:30 a.m. to 1 p ...

TAMPA — In the middle of more than 100 floats at last year’s Gasparilla parade was one that looked like a red-brick replica of the J.C. Newman Cigar Co., the only cigar factory still in ...