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Article: The gifts of Santa Fe: Art, food and living flourish at 7,000 feet.(Travel)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- August 4, 1996
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Just three years after the English settlers arrived in Virginia, Spanish conquistador Don Pedro de Peralta was founding La Villa Real de la Santa Fe de San Francisco de Asis - the Royal Town of the Holy Faith of St. Francis of Assisi - today shortened to Santa Fe.
Many of us who grow up on the East Coast are taught so much about early settlers in our states along the Atlantic Ocean that the European settlement of the old Spanish kingdom of New Mexico is overlooked.
Santa Fe has been a capital of one entity or another - the kingdom of New Mexico, the Mexican province of Nuevo Mejico, the American territory of New Mexico and the state of New Mexico - ...
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Article: Exploring Santa Fe. (New Mexico)
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December 1, 1997 ;
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... ... 201 W. Marcy St., Santa Fe, NM 87501; (800) 777 ... DOING THE TOWN * Central Santa Fe - a maze of narrow, one ... excellent museum portraying New Mexico history. A few steps ... bank of the often-dry Santa Fe River, historic Santuario ...
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