Santa Fe

Sante Fe

March 18, 2015

We made a day trip into Santa Fe.

Leo and Connie in Santa Fe plaza.  Note the artisans who set up shop under the porch of the Palace of Governors behind us.

Cathy and I toured the historic churches 

El Santuario de Guadelupe, 1781

and galleries 

all day, while Leo and Glen visited cafes and looked for a place to wait us out:

This is supposedly the oldest house in the US:

built in approx 1646 on the foundations of an abandoned pueblo dated in the 1200s.(I've since learned the oldest portion is the part at the extreme left of this picture.)

But I wonder about this since Taos pueblo, for instance has been continuously occupied since 1000 to 1400.  And what about the White House ruins we visited in Canyon de Chelly, older yet.  A little cultural bias, perhaps? 

Still, a pretty old house, in the oldest part of Santa Fe, and across the street from Mission de San Miguel, built between 1610 and 1625:

My favourite Santa Fe church

Leo researched a good place to have lunch, the Plaza Cafe (and he reports, they serve a good cup of coffee and a giant cinnamon bun), located on the plaza, and also with a claim to history:  Santa Fe's oldest restaurant, operating continuously since, not quite 1610, but 1905, nothing to sneer at.

I had enchiladas with mole sauce, and it was the best mole I've eaten since I was in Oaxaca, Mexico.  4 Thumbs up!

Non-culinary highlight of the day:  Andrea Fisher Fine pottery, a high-end gallery full of fabulous pots by historical and contemporary pueblo potters.

|View of courtyard inside a row of shops