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What is the oldest church in the United States? It is the San Miguel Church in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Under the auspices of Fray Alonso de Benavides, the church was built by Tlaxcalan Indians from Mexico in the early 1600s. The original adobe walls remain under the stucco exterior….
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With nothing to do on a Saturday afternoon, I decided to visit the Mesilla Valley Art Gallery in Mesilla, New Mexico. Located just across the Old Town plaza, it is very convenient for visitors. The entrance to the gallery is at the back of the building and not in front…
Read moreDescribing the Tent Rocks National Monument in Cochiti Pueblo New Mexico as beautiful, is an understatement. With rock formations unlike no other, the Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks is deserving of its National Monument status with its majestic sights and views, especially from the top. Two different geologic processes formed the rock…
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The first museum I visited when I traveled to Santa Fe, New Mexico was the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. One of the most significant artists of the 20th century, Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) was devoted to creating imagery that expressed what she called “the wideness and wonder of the world as I…
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If you don’t have time to travel to Albuquerque, New Mexico to see the stone arts, there is a much smaller area in the middle of the State where you see some petroglyphs. Visit the Three Rivers Petroglyph Site. The site is located 17 miles north of Tularosa, NM, and…
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The IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico is the only museum in the world dedicated solely to advancing the understanding of the contemporary Native arts. The look of the museum from the outside is appealing, with all those multi-colored columns that line the sidewalk. Even…
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Small garden, not so many variety of plants, and for a $7 admission fee, it is not worth seeing. I visited the Santa Fe Botanical Garden at the Museum Hill as it was just right across the Museum of International Folk Art. The entrance to the garden was a little…
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It is the merging of the old and the new! The New Mexico History Museum and the Palace of the Governors in downtown Santa Fe are now connected. The Palace of the Governors is one of the oldest occupied government buildings in the U.S. and has witnessed four centuries of…
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