You'll want to see here everything you need to know about the Children's Gasparilla Parade set for Saturday, Jan. 18, including a map of the route on Bayshore Boulevard from Bay to Bay Boulevard ...

“In 1783, having become a traitor and a pirate, José Gaspar gave the name of “Gasparilla” to himself as well as to his ship and the island in Charlotte Harbor, on the west coast of Florida ...

Known as the city's "signature event," Gasparilla was named after famed Florida pirate José Gaspar from the 18th century, who went by Gasparilla. It brings, for one day only, "the spirit of ...

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." ...