Raw States
Sant'Yago Illuminated Knight Parade
Tampa, FL · Quirky
- When
- February 13, 2027
- Where
- Seventh Avenue, Ybor City Historic District · Tampa · FL
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet
A nighttime parade of illuminated floats, marching bands, and costumed krewe members down Seventh Avenue in Ybor City. Run by the nonprofit Krewe of the Knights of Sant Yago since 1974, it is considered one of the largest illuminated night parades in the Southeast and funds college scholarships.
The history within reach
- Sant'Yago Illuminated Knight Paradesame spot
A nighttime parade of illuminated floats, marching bands, and costumed krewe members down Seventh Avenue in Ybor City.
- Fiesta Daysame spot
A free street festival and flag parade organized by the Ybor City Chamber of Commerce, celebrating the Cuban, Spanish, Italian, German, and Afro Cuban immigrant communities who built Ybor City's cigar industry.
Workers paid a reader out of their own wages to sit on a platform and read newspapers, novels and political tracts aloud all day.
- José Martí in Ybor City0.2 mi
Ybor City’s cigar workers gave a day’s pay a week to Cuban independence, and the war of 1895 was largely financed from these factory floors.
Vicente Martinez-Ybor moved his cigar works from Key West and built a whole town for it, Cuban, Spanish, Italian and Afro-Cuban workers in company houses.