Santa Fe Travel Blog

Grab your chain mail, adjust your codpiece and make haste to El Rancho de las Golondrinas this weekend, Sept. 17-18, for the Santa Fe Renaissance Fair. It’s a historical mash-up of all things sharp, showy and cool in a broadsword kind of way. Engage in sword fights, pirate battles, damsels in not-so-distress,...

Zozobra with firedancer © SteveLarese.com For the past 21 years, Ray A. Valdez of Santa Fe has created a monster. And not just any monster, but Zozobra, the 50-foot-tall bow tie-clad bogeyman who every September meets a fiery fate as the unofficial start of Fiesta de Santa Fe. “It’s a marionette,...

Weaving through a sea of humanity at the Santa Fe Indian Market, I can’t help but think of a line from the Navajo Beauty Way prayer: “With beauty around me I walk… .” I’m one of about 100,000 people who have descended upon City Different for the annual buying frenzy that is...

2012 SEASON ANNOUNCED Five new productions to be presented REPERTORY Puccini, Tosca. New Production Bizet, The Pearl Fishers. First Performance by The Santa Fe Opera. New Production Rossini, Maometto II. World Premiere of the New Critical Edition. New Production Szymanowski, King Roger. First Performance...

April is National Stress Awareness Month, and Casa de Estrellas Moroccan Spa in Santa Fe is helping you relax by offering its first Santa Fe Chocolate Spa Festival, Sat. April 23 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Spa-related vendors, raffles, free psychic readings and 20-percent off of Estrellas Moroccan Spa treatments...

Ever wonder why there’s an obelisk in the middle of the Santa Fe Plaza? Have you noticed the gargoyles on top of the Catron Building? Where was the gambling hall? Which tucked-away building held a Manhattan Project secret? Find out by taking a Downtown Walking Tour led by New Mexico History Museum/Palace...

© Museum of International Folk Art Santa Fe’s Museum of International Folk Art opens Folk Art of the Andes, April 17, 2011. This will be the first exhibit in the United States to feature a broad range of folk art from the Andean region of South America, showcasing more than 850 works of art primarily...

Enjoy seven more nights of great dining and informative daytime events through Sunday, March 13, 2011! It’s a once-a-year chance to experience specially created, multi-course dinners at amazingly low prices – two for $25, or $20, $30 or $40 per person. Whet your appetite with an array of...

Courtesy Artfeast Take one-part art, food and charity, mix well, and you have the perfect recipe for Santa Fe’s 14th annual ARTfeast, Feb. 25-27. ARTfeast is a weekend of culinary events that benefits the nonprofit ARTsmart, a program that purchases art materials, provides art programs and mentors,...

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