9/2/2023 0 Comments Sante fe new mexico scenery![]() ![]() Besides running the Hotel Santa Fe in the state capital, they own the Picuris Pueblo Museum and Visitor's Center, where weaving, beadwork, and distinctive reddish-brown clay cooking pottery are exhibited daily 8am to 5pm. The people here are modern enough to have fully computerized their public showcase operations as Picuris Tribal Enterprises. The annual feast days at San Lorenzo Church are August 9 and 10. A striking aboveground ceremonial kiva called "the Roundhouse," built at least 700 years ago, and some historic excavated kivas and storerooms are on a hill above the pueblo and are open to visitors. A few of the original mud-and-stone houses still stand, as does a lovely church. Thus, they observe a traditional form of tribal council government. 505/587-2519 The 375 citizens of this 15,000-acre mountain pueblo, native Tewa speakers, consider themselves a sovereign nation: Their forebears never made a treaty with any foreign country, including the United States. Picuris (San Lorenzo) Pueblo - Not far from the regional education center of Peñasco, about 24 miles from Chimayo, near the intersection of NM 75 and NM 76, is the Picuris (San Lorenzo) Pueblo (tel. ![]() Look for Sheila Keeffe's worldly painted panels, and Norbert Voelkel's colorful paintings and monoprints.Ībout 6 miles east of Truchas on NM 76 is the small town of Las Trampas, noted for its 1780 San José de Gracia Church, which, with its thick walls and elegant lines, might possibly be the most beautiful of all New Mexico churches built during the Spanish colonial period. Here you'll find an array of contemporary as well as representational art from noted regional artists. Just down the road from Cordovas' is Hand Artes Gallery (tel. His works tend to be simpler than many Rio Grande weavings, utilizing mainly stripes in the designs. In the center of town, this tiny shop is run by Harry Cordova, a fourth-generation weaver with a unique style. Be sure to find your way into the Cordovas' Handweaving Workshop (tel. 866/343-5381 or 505/351-1078), an artists' co-op gallery with a variety of offerings ranging from jewelry to landscape paintings to a broad range of crosses made from tin, rusted metal, and nails. The scenery is spectacular: 13,101-foot Truchas Peak dominates one side of the mesa, and the broad Rio Grande Valley dominates the other. A former Spanish colonial outpost built on top of an 8,000-foot mesa, 4 miles east of Cordova, it was chosen as the site for the film in part because traditional Hispanic culture is still very much in evidence. Truchas - Robert Redford's 1988 movie The Milagro Beanfield War featured the town of Truchas (which means "trout"). Carved from cedar wood and aspen, their works range from simple statues of saints (santos) to elaborate scenes of birds. Both are descendants of the well-noted José Dolores Lopez. The first you'll come to is that of Sabinita Lopez Ortiz the second belongs to her cousin, Gloria Ortiz. En route to the Castillo, you may want to stop in at two other local carvers' galleries. It also carries the work of Terry Enseñat Mulert, whose contemporary woodcarvings are treasures of the high country. 505/351-4067), a mile into the village of Cordova, carries moody and colorful acrylic paintings by Paula Castillo, as well as her metal welded sculptures. Just a short way through this truly traditional northern New Mexico town is a gem: The Castillo Gallery (tel. It's easy to whiz by this village, nestled below the High Road, but don't. This way, you see more expansive views.Ĭordova - Just as Chimayo is famous for its weaving, the village of Cordova, about 7 miles east on NM 76, is noted for its woodcarving. Though I've described this tour from south to north, the most scenic way to see it is from north to south, when you travel down off the mountains rather than up into them. Then it climbs toward the highlands to the village of Cordova, known for its woodcarvers, and higher still to Truchas, a renegade arts town where Hispanic traditions and ways of life continue much as they did a century ago. It begins in lowlands of mystically formed pink and yellow stone, passing by apple and peach orchards and chile farms in the weaving village of Chimayo. Unless you're in a hurry to get from Santa Fe to Taos, the High Road - also called the Mountain Road or the King's Road - is by far the most fascinating route between the two cities. ![]() A longer drive will take you to Chaco Culture National Historic Park (well worth the time) and to Chama, home of the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad. Native American pueblos and ruins, a national monument and national park, Los Alamos (the A-bomb capital of the U.S.), and the scenic and fascinating High Road to Taos are all easy day trips from Santa Fe. ![]()
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