Tampa, Florida kicked off the annual Gasparilla Pirate Festival on January 25, with pirates invading the city in full costume ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...