Everyone participating in the Publix Gasparilla Distance Classic is helping youth charities in the Tampa Bay area, just by ...

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 ...

Every year, an estimated 300,000 participants come to Tampa for Gasparilla Pirate Festival ... Hidden under a 6-and-a-half-foot puppet-like costume, Dennis Martin, 62, towered over parade-goers ...

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 ...

Tampa Mayor Jane Castor handed over the key to the city to Ye Mystic Krewe of Gasparilla during the 2025 Gasparilla Pirate invasion. The invasion is a Tampa tradition stretching back to the early ...

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 ...