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Welcome to the Tampa page. tampa is just north of the Sarasota area and ft Myers which has a ferry down to Key West. We produce the worlds best virtual tours for you to plan your vacation. Your Tampa Vacation can be filled with Things to do. The easiest way to set up your stay may be to purchase Tampa Vacation Packages which include Tampa Hotels or maybe Tampa Condos, which can be a way to bring the whole family down to Florida for big events. Now everyone in the party can visit our site and get their own Tampa Hotel and some may prefer to stay in their own Tampa Accommodations that can easily be found here. You may love our sunshine state paradise so much a look at Tampa Real Estate might just be in order. The entire market has been literally booming for many years. If you're looking for a great place to add your URL link for free we offer great reciprocal link exchange program for increased link popularity with Tampa Link Exchange. A lot of vacationers actually purchase Tampa Vacation Rentals to use part of the year and rent out the other times of the year. Many fishing captains are available for charters and some will pick up from your Tampa Resorts and take you right to the boat. Our Tampa Attractions are great, and most are very close to nice Tampa Restaurants or your favorite Tampa Bars. Everything you ever wanted to know about the entire state can be found on our network of websites. The word "Tampa" is a Native American word used to refer to the area when the first European explorers arrived in Florida. Its meaning, if any, has been lost to the ages, though it is sometimes claimed to mean "sticks of fire" in the language of the Calusa, a Native American tribe. Other historians claim the name refers to "The place to gather sticks". "Sticks of fire" may also relate to the high concentration of lightning strikes that Tampa Bay receives every year during the hot and wet summer months. Toponymist George R. Stewart writes that the name was the result of a miscommunication between the Spanish and the Indians, the Indian word being "itimpi", meaning simply "near it". The name first appears in the "Memoir" of Hernando de Escalante Fontaneda (1575), the author of which had spent 17 years as a Calusa captive. He calls it "Tanpa" and describes it as an important Calusa town. While "Tanpa" is the apparent basis for the modern name "Tampa", archaeologist Jerald Milanich places the Calusa village of Tanpa at the mouth of Charlotte Harbor, the original "Bay of Tanpa". Later Spanish explorers, having failed to locate Charlotte Harbor, assumed that the large bay they did find was the Bay of Tanpa, and the name stuck with the current Tampa Bay. Spanish conquistador Pánfilo de Narváez was the first European known to have visited the Tampa area, on April 8, 1528. Hernando de Soto arrived a year later to rescue the only remaining living member of de Narváez's expedition. A peace treaty was conducted with the local Indians and a short-lived Spanish outpost was established, but this was abandoned when it became clear that there was no gold in the area, and that the local Indians were not interested in converting to Catholicism and were too skilled as warriors to easily conquer.

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