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Welcome to Glendale, Ariz. and your online home base for your tourism information for Glendale’s major sporting events, including the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl, BCS Championship and the 2008 Super Bowl.

Glendale’s avenues are everything that makes Arizona one of the most desirable places on earth. We bask in 325 days of sunshine each year. February afternoons flirt with 80 degrees. We’re the proud home of the largest Air Force Training Base in the world. Home of the ultimate in sporting events. Home of one of the nation’s top antique shopping districts. Home to some of the most educated, hardest working, physically active and civically conscious residents in this Grand Canyon State.

We’re also famous for our festivals—from the Jazz and Blues Fest, a weekend packed with the smooth sounds of some of the region’s greatest jazz musicians, to the Glendale Glitters Holiday Lights Spectacular, which evokes a glow from the city beginning the day after Thanksgiving lasting through mid-January with a million multicolored lights creating a sparkling canopy over 10 square blocks.

We’re famous for convincing people to move to the Grand Canyon State. But we’re not asking you to take that kind of plunge. Not yet. Just visit.

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Glendale Attractions

Stadium. Alien technology, state-of-the-art contemporary architecture, call it what you want, but our new University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Ariz. is the coolest national sports facility around. A perfect marriage of liquid and steel, this one-of-a-kind sporting facility is the first on the continent to feature both a retractable roof and retractable playing field. Designed by world-renowned architect Peter Eisenman to mimic the sections of the native barrel cactus, the stadium fits together like a pleasing Sonoran puzzle and showers the interior with the perfect dose of natural light.

You might want to hurry in to tour the architecture now, however, because come opening day, attention will be stolen by the non-stop, helmet-to-helmet gridiron action taking the field. A Super Bowl in 2008, Fiesta Bowls beginning in 2007 as well as a BCS Championship—this stadium will be turning heads from all corners of the earth, and roaring fans and growling linemen will soon echo in the desert for generations. CLICK HERE for more information.

Jobing.com Arena. Not many venues can be all things to all people, but the award-winning Jobing.com Arena is a bold exception to that type of thinking. Born Dec. 27, 2003, to a howling house of rabid Coyotes fans, the Arena has been heralded by headline performers like U2, Bruce Springsteen and Paul McCartney and named best new major concert venue by Pollstar magazine, a major concert industry publication.

Showcasing state-of-the-art video technology, a pulsating sound system and seating arrangements that guarantee clear views from all points, the facility has been an ideal host for everything from intimate, rare acoustic performances to chart-topping, televised concert extravaganzas. And to top things off, it also just happens to be home to an NHL team coached by the game’s greatest player of all time—Wayne Gretzky. CLICK HERE for more information.

Historic Downtown. You’ll quickly realize why such national publications as USA Today, New York Times, Washington Post and The New Yorker rave about Historic Downtown Glendale when you visit this unique shopping district. Home to more than 90 specialty boutiques and antique shops, Glendale’s Historic Downtown does more than fit the bill for the die-hard shopping crowd; it’s also a time warp back to simpler days, complete with bricked sidewalks, shady streetscapes, front porches and genuine small-town hospitality. Your cravings will be satisfied here, as well, as our downtown dining district serves up some of the most unique and taste-tempting flavors to be found.

Historic Downtown also is renowned for its incredible array of festivals that draw more than one million visitors annually. These crowds enjoy special events that celebrate everything from the sweet taste of chocolate to one of Arizona’s largest holiday light displays that blankets the entire downtown area. CLICK HERE for more information.

Westgate City Center/Zanjero. There’s an energy brewing in Glendale’s western region—aftershocks of a rising Mecca of all things hip and cool. Wine bars, top-shelf dining destinations, gourmet coffee shops, high-end shopping—these are all part of the buzz that surrounds the Westgate and Zanjero developments.

Non-stop, premier entertainment offerings and nationally televised sporting events converge with one of the Valley’s newest urban villages offering a modern playground for families and a desirable home for young professionals wanting to live where the action is. And those who want to be in the thick of things, 24-7, can thanks to luxury lofts and condominiums evolving in the area. Cap things off with a planned Cabela’s, the world’s leading outdoor retailer, premium office space and a four-diamond luxury Renaissance Hotel & Conference Center and you have the ultimate media destination where journalists of all types will be in the middle of all the action taking place outside! CLICK HERE for more information.

Bell Road/Arrowhead. Spending power permeates the air along the corridors of Glendale’s most-northern avenues. When it comes to retail, Arrowhead could be considered a capital. Shoppers delight in one of the largest malls in the region – the beautifully designed Arrowhead Towne Center, conveniently located just off the Loop 101 and Bell Road. Celebrating more than 10 years of business, this mall also has spurred the successful development of the Bell Road Corridor, which now provides thousands of jobs and is the home to more than 100 restaurants.

Nearby neighborhoods are some of the most desirable places to live in the Southwest, complete with meandering greenbelts, top-rated golf courses and hillside spreads with views as far as the eye can see. Arrowhead’s residents are considered one of the most active and affluent year-round populations in the nation, and this community is their ideal playground as nearby Thunderbird Conservation Park hugs the northern edge of the community and welcomes hikers and bikers of all abilities. CLICK HERE for more information.

Accommodations.Stay steps from the action! Why drive across town when you can have the Stadium right outside your front door? Smart, stylish and spacious rooms are still available throughout Glendale's hotels, including the brand new Renaissance Glendale Hotel & Spa, Residence Inn and SpringHill Suites. Click here for a list of Glendale hotels>>

Airport. Corporate meeting space, office leases, enclosed hangar facilities, shaded or open tie-downs, flight instruction, aircraft sales and rentals, and car rentals are just a few of the distinctive services provided at Glendale Municipal Airport. Couple that with NFL, NHL, championship college football and blockbuster entertainment venues within a mile, and you have a jetsetter’s paradise. Whether you’re looking for an easy takeoff spot to other hot Southwest locales like Vegas, L.A. or Santa Fe or want to boost business with easy air shipping, the Glendale Airport will meet your needs and exceed your expectations.

A region so rife with business opportunities and a vast list of amenities and attractions deserves equally impressive accommodations. Enter the district’s high-end Renaissance Hotel and Conference Center. Complete with 320 luxury rooms, this property will take on a boutique flair and will be the best place to be to capture all of the excitement flowing outside in Glendale’s sports and entertainment district. CLICK HERE for more information.