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 ...

Mayor Bob Buckhorn walked the entire 1.4-mile route, tossing beads and soaking in his first Children's Gasparilla Parade as Tampa's leader. "It's great just to see the kids' excited faces," he said.

TAMPA, Fla. — Racers are gearing up to participate in this weekend's Publix Gasparilla Distance Classic as it takes over downtown Tampa. The Gasparilla Distance Classic Association, which ...

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 ...

For half a century, artists and art lovers from all parts of the country migrated annually to the Raymond James Gasparilla Festival of the Arts, where the country’s most accomplished artists and ...

TAMPA — For those who missed out on the pirate ... This year, the consortium partnered with Ye Mystic Krewe of Gasparilla to buy and distribute 200 recycling bins along the parade route.

Past revelers and pirate wannabes have called Gasparilla Pirate Festival Tampa's "party of the year," but to be prepared for the crowds. There are several ways to enjoy the Gasparilla Pirate ...

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 ...