Before pirates invaded the land, the scallywags invaded the water and took the key to the city from Mayor Jane Castor.

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

Tampa's time-honored tradition of the Gasparilla Parade of Pirates brings hundreds of thousands to the Tampa Bay area. It is ...

TAMPA, Fla. – Up and down Tampa Bay’s shore on Saturday, people donned fake tattoos, paraded with stuffed parrots, put on quirky pirate costumes ... But as a three-masted ship draped in ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Every year since 1904, Tampa Bay has been invaded by pirates ... who in the early 1780s mutinied against ...

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 ...