Annual Events
- Sant'Yago Knight Parade (also known as Gasparilla Night Parade) - usually held the Saturday following the Gasparilla Pirate Festival in late February
- Guavaween - daytime events and nighttime parade in October, named for Tampa's "Big Guava" nickname
- Rough Rider's St. Patrick's Night Parade - illuminated nighttime parade held on or near St. Patrick's Day, mid-March
- Tampa Cigar Heritage Festival - celebrated mid-November
- Festa Italiana Weekend event celebrating Italian culture and food, celebrated mid-April
- Fiesta - weekend event celebrating Latin culture and food, celebrated mid-February
- GaYbor Days - four-day long street festival in the GaYbor district, held in July
- Cigar City Tattoo Convention - annual tattoo convention hosted at the Historic Cuban Club
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“No annual training or muster of soldiery, no celebration with its scarfs and banners, could import into the town a hundredth part of the annual splendor of our October. We have only to set the trees, or let them stand, and Nature will find the colored drapery,—flags of all her nations, some of whose private signals hardly the botanist can read,—while we walk under the triumphal arches of the elms.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)