Our live updates for Gasparilla 2025 have concluded. Read more about the festivities here. TAMPA — Shiver me timbers: It was an especially cold morning for those pesky pirates invading Tampa ...

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Gasparilla in Tampa is Saturday, Jan. 25, 2025. Attendees can witness the "pirate invasion" as Jose Gasparilla ship sets sail at Hillsborough Bay 7 Sarasota area restaurants ace inspections, 2 get ...

The third-largest annual parade in the United States, Tampa's Gasparilla Pirate Fest, held every January, draws hundreds of thousands to live out their swashbuckling fantasies and party like a pirate.

Gasparilla is essentially a pirate invasion, culminating in a celebratory parade down Tampa’s famed Bayshore Boulevard. According to Gasparilla Pirate Fest , it has been celebrated every year in ...

— Gasparilla Tampa (@GasparillaTampa) January 28, 2023. For those out on the parade route (or everyone else keeping track from home) here’s a handy bingo card from the Tampa Bay Times.

The original Gasparilla Krewe in Tampa Bay says that Gaspar “terrorized the coastal waters of West Florida” in the 18th and 19th centuries, with multiple tales of his background and story ...

The Tampa Bay area's annual pirate festival, Gasparilla, first began in 1904 when the Ye Mystic Krewe of Gasparilla (YMKG) planned a surprise "mock pirate attack" on Tampa.