At the entrance are located in Arizona road billboards with the inscription «The Grand Canyon State Welcomes You»; one of the biggest, densely populated, hot, mineral-rich and popular among tourists from all over the world states in the country welcomes you.

 

Arizona Earth saw the first European settlers in the sixteenth century; among travelers from the Old World were missionaries, and seekers of gold - probably the first still more. That Spanish missionaries in 1775 founded the city of Tucson - today one of the largest in the state.

 

For a long time it was dominated by the Spaniards in the region; at the beginning of the nineteenth centuries, they were replaced by the Mexicans. Arizona for several decades was Mexican territory, before the mid-nineteenth century to become the property of the US government.

 

Phoenix, the largest city in the state, it is both the capital since 1889; Tucson also managed to stay in this role during the period from 1867 until 1877.

 

Arizona Nature is diverse and includes both arid deserts and huge forests and lakes, rivers and, of course, canyons, located in the northern part of the state, on the Colorado Plateau.

 

The famous Grand Canyon (or the Grand Canyon), of course, is the most famous attraction in Arizona; No wonder the nickname of Arizona - the state of the Grand Canyon (Grand Canyon State). He who has the status of a national park, received in 1919, Grand Canyon stretches more than two hundred miles in length, recalling the grandeur of nature.

 

However, apart from the famous canyon, Arizona is rich and other natural wonders. Petrified Forest (Petrified Forest), another state national park, holds the remains of prehistoric trees - fossils today, they rustled their mighty branches more than two hundred million years ago. Painted Desert, or the Painted Desert - it's a hundred and fifty square miles in the north of the territory, part of the park "Petrified Forest", painted in a different color - from gray to pink - thanks to mineral compounds contained in the soil.