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

are owed to what Ye Mystic Krewe of Gasparilla call the “last of the Buccaneers,” the “legendary” pirate captain José Gaspar. The original Gasparilla Krewe in Tampa Bay says that Gaspar ...

“ARGGG, it was wonderful, it was fantastic, greatest day of the year for Tampa Bay and go pirates,” said a Gasparilla ... Mayor Castor responded. “The ship came in, the loud noises, and ...

For more than 100 years, city leaders have held the signature Gasparilla event to draw visitors with a day of pirates and a parade of buccaneers ... ship made its way to the Tampa Convention ...