The Gasparilla Pirate Festival is a large parade with a host of events held in Tampa, Florida.
This festival is a must-see and is complete with a children's extravaganza and a much more adult-oriented night festival later in the week.
Besides the main Parade of Pirates, there is a children's parade, film festival, music festival, an art festival and a road race.
The main event is the Gasparilla Invasion or the reenactment of the historic pirate invasion of Tampa, led by Jose Gasparilla. Visitors get to see the only fully-rigged pirate ship in the world, followed by hundreds to thousands of boats! They then continue with the 4.5-mile Parade of Pirates, composed of more than a hundred elaborate floats, 5 marching bands and of course, the swashbuckling pirates!
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