Our live updates for Gasparilla 2025 have concluded. Read more about the festivities here. TAMPA — Shiver me timbers: It was ...

Gasparilla Pirate Fest has live music at stages located along the Tampa Riverwalk that run from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. at Curtis ...

An estimated 300,000 people turn out for Gasparilla festivities, generating millions of dollars for the local economy.

TAMPA, Fla. — The City of Tampa is cleaning up post-Gasparilla, and they need your help. The city's Department of Solid Waste is continuing its Bead-Free Bay Campaign to help remove all unwanted ...

Pirate-goers donned all kinds of quirky costumes. Hidden under a 6-and-a-half-foot puppet-like costume, Dennis Martin, 62, ...

Preschoolers stroll For Tampa’s newest and youngest pirates, kiddos in decorated wagons and costumes can take part in an hour ...

Arr! Gasparilla in Tampa is Saturday, Jan. 25, 2025. Attendees can witness the "pirate invasion" as Jose Gasparilla ship sets ...

And, if you feel like popping by after Gasparilla, they also have a bar serving up cocktails. 507 N. Tampa St., Tampa. 813-229-8462. This new Spanish and Mediterranean restaurant boasts a massive ...

Pirates are temporarily taking over downtown Tampa to celebrate Gasparilla, an annual pirate-themed festival. Known as 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 ...

The Jose Gasparilla II pirate ship carries members ... wrote the forward for “Tampa With a Twist,” a snapshot of Tampa’s bar scene published by Visit Tampa Bay last year.

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 January. The festival is named after a famed ...