TAMPA’S GREAT PARADE – GASPARILLA PIRATE FEST
GASPARILLA PIRATE FEST SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 2022! Tampa celebrated its 100th Gasparilla Pirate Festival on January 31, 2015. Tampa’s answer to Mardi Gras celebrates the legend of Jose Gaspar (nicknamed Gasparilla), a mythical Spanish pirate captain who supposedly operated in southwest Florida. Gasparilla was founded in 1904. The festival didn’t happen in 1907-09 and […]