While the legends of José Gaspar are full of alleged adventure and swashbuckling, history tells a different story.

Donated beads are sold to Gasparilla pirates, and that money helps fund programs at the MacDonald Training Center.

Gasparilla Parade, also known as the Gasparilla Pirate Festival, is a Tampa-based yearly event with more than a century-long ...

Starting next week, you can party like pirate in Florida! Here's a guide to Tampa's Gasparilla Pirate Festival and ...

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

We have a history of Gasparilla, starting when they arrived on horseback. And the Tampa Bay History Center has recounted Gasparilla floats through years, which have gotten more elaborate with each ...

Gasparilla history: Why does Tampa celebrate a fictional pirate? The non-profit partnered with the Buccaneers and Suzuki Marine to make this event happen. “For this event, it is on the water and ...

Instead, history shows that Florida’s 20th governor, Albert W. Gilchrist owned a hotel on Gasparilla Island. He bought land at Boca Grande in 1897, an outpost, and wanted to develop it into a town.

YMKG published a centennial history document in 2004 that recounts the legends surrounding Gasparilla, adding that research conducted in both Spanish and American archives has not uncovered any ...