One of the oldest cities in the United States, New Mexico’s state capital Santa Fe has a rich history and heritage for you to delve into. Home to a mesmerizing mix of cultures, its age-old streets are a treat to explore with attractive Native American adobe buildings and charming Spanish colonial churches alongside magnificent Mexican missions.
Besides being renowned for its cultural diversity and interesting historic tourist attractions, the city is also famed for its extraordinary arts scene. While plenty of galleries dot its streets, Santa Fe is also an important center for the performing arts and hosts lots of great cultural events and festivals. Other things to do in Santa Fe include visiting marvelous museums and exploring it’s scenic setting at the foot of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.
Meow Wolf
An extraordinary interactive and immersive art installation, the mesmerizing Meow Wolf certainly promises to be unlike anything you’ve seen or experienced before. Located in what was once an old bowling alley, its surreal scenes and settings are lots of fun to explore and appear decidedly otherworldly and unique.
. . . and don’t forget Zozobra!
One of New Mexico’s treasured events and most historic traditions, the Burning of Zozobra showcases the Original Burning Man, predating the Black Rock newcomer by 60 years. Will Shuster’s creation originated as a homely 6-foot effigy made to entertain friends and family, and over the decades has morphed into a towering 50-footer, one of the world’s tallest fully functioning marionettes. His bones of wood and wire shrouded in endless yards of cotton cloth, Zozobra is stuffed with an absolute mountain of shredded paper. Tucked inside his enormous body are slips of paper inscribed with a year’s worth of gloomy thoughts and disappointments, destined to go up in smoke when he is set alight in a fiery extravaganza culminating in the city’s finest fireworks display.