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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Grab your beads, costumes and eye patches, and get ready for the annual Gasparilla parades. Be sure to bundle up because we'll be dealing with some extra chilly weather this year. Tampa City ...

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 ...

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 ...

Preschooler’s Stroll for children five and under (pre-registration is required), Gasparilla Air Invasion, Children’s Parade, and the Piratechnic Fireworks Extravaganza to end the evening.

This requires pre-registration. 4-6:15 p.m. - Children's Gasparilla Parade: Get your beads and candy from pirates, floats and marching bands along Bayshore Boulevard. It's widely considered the ...

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 ...