The festival is named after a legendary Florida pirate from the 18th ... an early 1900s promotional brochure for the Gasparilla Inn on Gasparilla Island in Charlotte Harbor." ...

The Gasparilla Pirate Festival is a large annual parade, with a variety of related pirate-themed community events, held in Tampa every January. The festival is named after a legendary Florida ...

The Gasparilla Pirate Festival is a large annual parade, with a variety of related pirate-themed community events, held in Tampa every January. The festival is named after a legendary Florida pirate ...

The event is free to participate and no registration is required. Gasparilla Preschooler’s Stroll (12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.) In this event, Tampa’s youngest pirates take center stage.

That means Gasparilla ... who lives on Davis Island, can understand the concern. He saw firsthand how damaging those hurricanes were. "We got plenty [of water] in our house. That's what we say.

Tampa Bay Times reporter Gabrielle Calise explained how the first Gasparilla had a krewe that rode in on horses instead of a floating ship. Many other lesser-known facts from generations ago were ...

TAMPA, Fla. — Children’s Gasparilla is Saturday, officially kicking off Gasparilla season. Events are happening all day from 12 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. The parade starts at 4 p.m., and the route ...

Nick Saban's sudden retirement as Alabama’s head football coach caused mass roster turnover in Tuscaloosa last January. One of the most severe losses was 5-star Julian Sayin, the likely ...

The class is headlined by two championship coaches, Nick Saban and Urban Meyer ... to a national championship three times, twice with Florida and once with Ohio State; he retired from coaching ...