Pikes Peak
"Tava" or "sun", is the Ute word that was given by these first people to the mountain that we now call Pikes Peak. The band of Ute people who called the Pikes Peak region their home were the "Tabeguache", meaning the "People of Sun Mountain". The Ute people first arrived in Colorado about 500 A.D., although their traditions state they were created on Pikes Peak. In the 1800s, when the Arapaho people arrived in Colorado, they knew the mountain as ""Heey-otoyoo' "" meaning "Long Mountain". Early Spanish explorers named the mountain ""El Capitán"" meaning "The Leader". American explorer Zebulon Pike named the mountain "Highest Peak" in 1806, and the mountain was later commonly known as "Pike's Highest Peak". American explorer Stephen Harriman Long named the mountain "James Peak" in honor of Edwin James who climbed to the summit in 1820. The mountain was later renamed "Pike's Peak" in honor of Pike. The name was simplified to "Pikes Peak" by the United States Board on Geographic Names in 1890.
Pikes Hotel
Pikes Hotel is a luxury hotel, set in a 15th-century stone mansion, a "finca", which was a farm for centuries. It is accessed off a long lane leading from the main road from Sant Antoni de Portmany. Stuart Husband of "The Independent" describes Pikes Hotel as "a notorious Ibiza hotel where anything goes." It is considered to be one of the most famous or infamous hotels on the island and has been cited as one of the "world's true spiritual homes of rock'n'roll hedonism." Iain Stewart of "The Rough Guide to Ibiza" considers Pikes Hotel to be an "almost legendary, relaxed and idiosyncratic rural hotel, popular with visiting celebrities." "The Mail on Sunday" has referred to the hotel as an "atmosphere of complete sexual licence." Anthony Pike himself said "it's been claimed we break every law, but I wouldn't be in business if that was the case." Boy George referred to Pike as the "Hugh Hefner of Ibiza".