First wandering around the square to see the vendors and various shops, we then hit the Museum of Fine Arts. That's the corner of the museum in the pic above. Everything in the area had the adobe house thing going on.
The Governors Palace was next - the oldest continuously inhabited public building in the U.S. It had some pretty cool stuff in it, but mostly the history of the building was the most interesting bit. Apparently it was the scene of one of the only successful native american uprisings in history.
The Cathedral Church of St. Francis of Assisi was the next major stop on the list.
The present church was built in 1886, but the previous church on the site was built in 1610.
I was generally more impressed with the exterior than the interior, which is reversed from my usual reaction to cathedrals/churches.
The next stop, aside from a bunch of neat, overpriced jewelry shops, was the Loretto Chapel, with it's super-mysterious miraculous staircase.
This miraculous staircase has no center support, and theoretically shouldn't stand up on its own, much less be able to hold the weight of an entire choir up it's height.
We then went on a walk around to some of the oldest buildings in the city. Most were simply marked with a plaque on the outside, like my favorite the "oldest house."
It is claimed that this is the oldest house in the U.S. I'm not so sure, myself, but it's certainly possible since Santa Fe itself is the oldest capitol city in the U.S.
We ended up at the Georgia O'keefe museum, less than two blocks from our B&B. It had a concurrent small display of Andy Warhol flower paintings - kinda cool.
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