{"id":3961,"date":"2025-10-15T03:55:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T03:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/3961\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T03:55:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T03:55:42","slug":"fireworks-near-me-st-petersburg-july-4th-2025-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/3961\/","title":{"rendered":"Fireworks Near Me: St. Petersburg July 4th 2025 Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG, FL \u2014 Independence Day falls on a Friday in 2025, kicking off a star-spangled three-day weekend packed with fireworks, festivals and other Fourth of July fun in and around St. Petersburg.<\/p>\n<p>To help you fit it all in on your 4th of July calendar, Patch has put together a guide to what\u2019s going on in St. Petersburg and the surrounding areas.<\/p>\n<p> July 4 Festivities For 2025  <\/p>\n<p>What: <a href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/florida\/stpete\/calendar\/event\/20250704\/2e236d79-024c-4330-bf61-3a9ba9dbd7a7\/the-fourth-at-the-st-pete-pier-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Fourth at the St. Pete Pier 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Where: St. Pete Pier<\/p>\n<p>When: July 4, 4 to 10 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>What: <a href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/florida\/southtampa\/calendar\/event\/20250704\/bae1fe12-dd05-45aa-af79-2b5d756de384\/boom-by-the-bay-july-4-fireworks-festival-tampa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Boom By The Bay July 4 Fireworks, Festival<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Where: Julian B. Lane Riverfront Park, Tampa<\/p>\n<p>When: July 4, 4 to 10 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Independence Day commemorates the adoption of the Declaration of Independence by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776. In that document, the 13 original colonies declared their independence from Great Britain.<\/p>\n<p>During the pivotal summer of 1776, the pre-Revolutionary celebrations honoring King George III\u2019s birthday were replaced with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/topics\/holidays\/july-4th\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">mock funerals<\/a> as a symbolic break from the crown. <\/p>\n<p>It was an exciting time in Philadelphia \u2014 the Continental Congress voted to break from the crown and, two days later on July 4, the Declaration of Independence was adopted by the original 13 colonies \u2014New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland. Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia \u2014 to adopt the Declaration of Independence.<\/p>\n<p>The first annual commemoration of the nation\u2019s independence was in Philadelphia on July 4, 1777, while the Revolutionary War was ongoing. Fireworks have been part of Fourth of July festivities since the first celebration in Philadelphia. <\/p>\n<p>Today, Americans celebrate with fireworks, parades, concerts, and family gatherings and barbecues. Celebrations, though, predate by centuries the designation of Independence Day as a federal holiday, which didn\u2019t happen until 1941.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, FL \u2014 Independence Day falls on a Friday in 2025, kicking off a star-spangled three-day weekend&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-3961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}