The Plaza & the Old City

Founded around 1610 as the town's central square; the terminus of both the Santa Fe Trail and El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro.

Built around 1610 and often called the oldest continuously occupied public building in the U.S.; its portal hosts the Native American Vendors Program.

The 1917 Pueblo Revival landmark that helped codify 'Santa Fe Style' architecture.

A hotel has stood on this corner — 'the inn at the end of the trail' — since the city's early days; the current La Fonda dates to 1922.

Archbishop Jean-Baptiste Lamy's Romanesque cathedral, the inspiration for Willa Cather's 'Death Comes for the Archbishop.'

Gothic chapel famous for its 'miraculous' spiral staircase, built without a central support — a story we'll frame as the legend it is.

Often called the oldest church in the continental U.S., with original adobe walls dating to about 1610.

A De Vargas Street adobe widely promoted as one of the oldest houses in the U.S.

One of the oldest neighborhoods in the U.S., settled by Tlaxcalan and other Indigenous laborers from Mexico in the early 1600s.

Built in the late 1700s, considered the oldest extant shrine to Our Lady of Guadalupe in the United States.

A narrow lane where woodcutters once tied their burros; a pocket of old Santa Fe just off the Plaza.

A 1931 movie palace in ornate Spanish-Moorish style, restored into the city's premier performing-arts venue.

The only round state capitol in the U.S., shaped like a Zia sun symbol and home to a notable collection of New Mexico art.