Tampa’s premier art event, the Raymond James Gasparilla Festival of the Arts (GFA), returns March 1-2, 2025, bringing an ...

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 ...

Tampa’s signature pirate event got off to a chilly start, but things warmed up as the day and parties progressed.

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 ...

Every year, an estimated 300,000 participants come to Tampa for Gasparilla Pirate Festival, a mock attack by a band of pirates called Ye Mystic Krewe. The pirates’ plot is simple: storm the ...

TAMPA, Fla. — The 2025 Gasparilla Pirate Fest is almost here, and thousands of pirates are ready to invade Hillsborough Bay. Grab your beads, costumes and eye patches, and get ready for the ...

Sometimes, they even take the Tampa mayor hostage to ransom for the key to the city. The origins of Gasparilla, both invasion and parade, are owed to what Ye Mystic Krewe of Gasparilla call the ...

5:30 p.m. — The parade has now ended! Happy Gasparilla! 2:30 p.m. — The Parade of Pirates has begun on Bayshore Boulevard. 11:30 a.m. — After rumors were swirling of an invasion on Saturday ...

Florida officials are holding off updating the state's population projections because of the uncertainties surrounding how the immigration policies of President Donald Trump and Gov. Ron DeSantis are ...

TAMPA, Fla. — All pirates support a clean and healthy marine environment. It is an important part of navigating their watery world and enjoying the bounty of the sea. One Gasparilla Krewe ...