| Duration: | 2 Day(s) - 1 Night(s) |
| Tour Category: | Culture Tours |
History & Culture
For 400+ years Santa Fe has improved with age. The nation's oldest capital city experienced waes of migrations along the three trails that led here - and more recently via the rails, Route 66, and the interstate. Artists, chefs, wellness experts, and other creative dreamers all bring their cultural talents and experience with them, and when they meet Santa Feś unique, multicultural history against a backdrop of the Sangre de Cristo mountain's majesty and spectacular sunsets over the Jemez range - nothing short of magic transpires.
1. Santa Fe is the oldest capital city in the US
2. ...But the city's Native roots run even deeper.
3. The landscape is more ski-basin than the desert.
4. Santa Fe was the country´s first UNESCO-designated Creative City...
5. ... and it´s one of the largest art markets in the US.
6. In Santa Fe, food is an art form all its own...
7. ...while the Santa Fe, Opera is nothing short of world-famous.
8. Summer in Santa Fe = art market season
9. So many famous writers and artists have lived here (and still do).
10. This is one of the most romantic cities in the country.
The early Native American inhabitants called it ¨Dancing Ground of the Sun¨; while the founding frontiersman at the turn of the 20th century referred to it as ¨They City Different.¨ Those nicknames still hold today, as you´ll see for yourself.
Santa Fe nicknamed itself The City Different in the early 1900s fully aware and proud of its uniqueness but its story stretches back to the 1600s, giving this southwestern hub multiple centuries to grow into its imaginative, artistic self.
Today, The City Different continues to be proud - of its numerous historic, sites, and museums, its hundreds of art galleries, and perhaps the most colorful culinary scene in the country. To celebrate the New Mexican capital consider some of the most surprising facts about Santa Fe - and how you can best experience them.
