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Pro
Fascinating culture, delicious Southwestern cuisine, beautiful jewelry and pottery made by Native Americans, the second biggest US center for art (Manhattan is first)
Con
Extremely expensive shops and restaurants are causing the city to lose some of its original authenticity
In a nutshell
Go ahead and run the yellow light, they'll think you're New Mexican! ;)
Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi
HispanicYob Says: This church was built in the late 1800's and is located in Santa Fe's historic Plaza. It became a basilica in 2005 by Pope Benedict XVI. It is a beautiful church, and very popular since it's in the plaza. There is a huge fountain, a baptismal fountain, located in the center...
Museum of International Folk Art
Roadquill Says: Talk about being blown away. This place is an absolute treasure. You can all it folk art, primitivo, rustica...who cares... the quantity, the exhibits, the detail the creativity is not to be believed until you walk in. Located on Museum Hill a couple miles from Old Town...
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
Roadquill Says: Santa Fe boasts several world class museums, but I was unprepared for how incredibly informative the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture is. We were under time contraints and could only allocate 90 minutes, but we could have spent many hours. The place could use a little more...
Roadquill Says: Even if your don't go to any of the four wonderful museums that make up Museum Hill, the plaza between the SW Indian Arts Museum and the International Folk Museum is interesting in and of itself. Plus the area surrounding Museum Hill is pleasant to walk around as you feel...
Basilica Cathedral of St. Francis of Assisi
Roadquill Says: This beautiful, French, Romanesque style cathedral in the center of old town is quite inspiring. In addition to the architecture, there are many wonderful statues surrounding the cathedral. In 1850 the church was deemed too small so a French architect and Italian stone...
4 Reviews and 712 Opinions Although I have attended conferences, eaten in the restaurant and met people at the La Fonda Hotel,...
3 Reviews and 562 Opinions As a local, i chose the Inn on the Alameda out of all the hotels in Santa Fe to spend a "night out"...
HispanicYob Says: We decided to try this place out after hearing about it from some source that said it was one of the top eats in Santa Fe. This place is certainly busy! This was right before the lunch rush. This place offers "traditional" New Mexican food such as enchilada plates and...
Los Potrillos: Santa Fe: AUTHENTIC Mexican Food
foreverstoked Says: Santa Fe is full of tourist trap Mexican restaurants, especially downtown, serving overpriced tasteless taco bell quality food. This IS Mexican unlike most restaurants in Santa Fe, portions are plentiful and the chile is spicy. From the outside, Los Potrillos (The Colts)...
Pasquale's Cafe: Local Favorite
Roadquill Says: Pasquale's Cafe is a small cafe in old town Santa Fe. As far as cafe's go, this is a cafe on foodie steriods. Creatively presented local food. For more than four you have to wing it and see if they have room at their community table in the middle of the floor. A good...
The Compound: High End Splurge
Roadquill Says: We found The Compound a fun and delicious place to celebrate our anniverary dinner with friends. The prices are top end, and the total price once pre dinner drinks, wine and side dishes are added in can easily top $100 per person. Chef mark Kiffin was named Best Chef of the...
The Burrito Company: Great Reasonable Place
Roadquill Says: There is a difference between a Mexican food place in Santa Fe and a New Mexican food place. We almost didn't go into The Burrito Company as we were looking for something a little more upscale. Not fancy on the inside by any means, but the food was delicious and reasonably...
Roadquill Says: There is a small, open air tourist bus called the Loretto Line that you can pick up by the old town central Plaza, takes you up Canyon past the art galleries, then up past the celebrity homes, up to the Museum Hill, then back around old town. Takes about 1 hour and 15...
Gillybob Says: The New Mexico Rail Runner is a train service which runs from Belen in the south, through Albuquerque, to Santa Fe as it's terminus in the north.The Rail Runner offers a great opportunity to non-drivers who are staying in the area to access Santa Fe at low cost. The service...
Licensed Indian Vendors: Authentic Indian Jewelry
Roadquill Says: Lining the Governors Building facing the Santa Fe Plaza are licensed, local Indian jewelry vendors. Many of the vendors are also the artists that make the jewelry. Many of the artists take great pride in the turquoise they use and the other materials they use. The vendors...
The Original Trading Post: Every souvenir you can think of!!
Gillybob Says: With not an inch of unused space in this shop, The Original Trading Post accommodates a variety of souvenirs including T-shirts, key rings, shot glasses, Native American basketware and pottery, postcards, etc.One section of the shop holds a selection of Western-style suede...
HispanicYob Says: As a native New Mexican born and raised, I'm of course familiar with our capital city, Santa Fe. I've visited frequently on our Railrunner commuter train. From the Railyard to the downtown plaza area that holds the historic part of Santa Fe, it's also considered a town that...
Santos and other religious art
goodfish Says: Spanish settlers brought the Catholic faith and its saints to New Mexico four hundred years ago. As colonial chapels were established and missionaries dispatched to this remote region, imagery was needed to familiarize the newly converted with the saints and their stories...
toonsarah Says: Española is an unprepossessing town a few miles north of Santa Fe, but well worth a visit if only for one single sight – the Chimayó Trading Post. Its location, marooned on a small triangle of land surrounded by busy roads, is somehow apt, because the place itself feels like...
Bandelier National Monument: Tsankawi
toonsarah Says: One reason for our planning to spend several days in Santa Fe was to do a day trip to Bandelier National Monument. I had read a lot about it, here on VT and elsewhere, and knew it was just the sort of place we would enjoy visiting. Then a few months before our visit a...
toonsarah Says: When we arrived at our accommodation in Santa Fe the owner of the Chapelle Street Casitas said “And yes, there is a law that everything has to be brown!” The downtown area here preserves a number of old adobe buildings from Spanish colonial times, but at first glance you...
toonsarah Says: If you enjoy art of any form you are almost bound to see something that appeals to you in Santa Fe. The city is obsessed, it seems! I read that “Art galleries” take up five pages in the local Yellow Pages directory, and “Artists” have their own heading, with subheadings for...
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