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When you have booked your hotels in Phoenix make sure to read the history of this beautiful city. What we know as the city of Phoenix today was once a large settlement of an advanced Native Americans, called Hohokam. They inhabited the area of Salt River from ancient times and have suddenly vanished around 1450 AD leaving an advanced system of water supply canals as evidence of their existence. The Pima tribes, which have settled in that very area, gave the name to Hohocam tribes, which in Pima literally means "those who have gone." The Pima tribes were the ones to contact with the white settlers a couple of centuries later.

The first Europeans to arrive to the settlement where Hispanic conquistadors, which have led conquest to the whole state of Arizona in the 1500s. The Spanish brought new technology and agricultural methods to Indians, followed by farmers, miners and traders who have chosen to settle in the area. For centuries the Native American tribes were tolerant towards newcomers, until the 1850s when they finally realized that they are gradually driven out of their own lands. This led to clashes between the Indians and the settlers, with a consequent intervention by the US army, which has entirely driven the natives out of the settlement to reservations during the late 1860s.

In 1864 a supply camp for Camp McDowell was built on the Hohokam ruins, while in 1867 the sophisticated Indian irrigation canals were restored by settlers, who gave the place its modern name - "Phoenix." They believed that following the myth of the bird rising from its ashes, the ancient ruins will give birth to a large and prosperous city. The prediction was very accurate, as with its incorporation in 1881 the city of Phoenix has rapidly grown into a major city in the entire state of Arizona, becoming its capital in 1912.

The city became widely famous for its wild western character and general outlaw atmosphere at the turn of the century. But later, with the establishment of the railroad and a steady growth of population the order was restored, making Phoenix a large transportation and commercial hub between the East and the West of the US. Population growth was steadily positive throughout the history of Phoenix with a major influx of new residents after World War II.

Today Phoenix is a large industrial and cultural center, supported by the technological advances of the Roosevelt Dam, the Southern Pacific Railroad the Central Arizona Project aqueduct system. It is considered as one of the best places to do business in America, still enjoying a rich cultural, sport and recreational life.