Santa Fe Attractions

Palace of Governors

To begin sightseeing in Santa Fe, start where it all began on the city’s historic central Plaza, which is dominated by the adobe structure known as the Palace of the Governors, the oldest public building in the United States. The palace was built...  see full details

Museum of Fine Arts

Opposite the Governor’s Palace on Santa Fe’s historic Plaza stands a prime example of Pueblo Revival architecture, built in 1917, which houses the state’s oldest art museum, home to more than 20,000 works of art. The distinguished collection spans the historic art colonies of...  see full details

Museum of International Folk Art

The most important and comprehensive collection of cross-cultural folk art in the world is housed in the Santa Fe Museum of International Folk Art about two miles (3km) southeast of the city's central Plaza, on the old Sante Fe Trail. Fascinating for tourists, and...  see full details

Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

The museum dedicated to the work of Georgia O'Keefe opened in 1997, eleven years after the death of the artist who loved the state of New Mexico so much. Since then the museum has welcomed more than 1.3-million visitors, who come to enjoy...  see full details

Loretto Chapel

Although the Loretto Chapel on the Old Santa Fe Trail is no longer used for worship, it nevertheless remains a place of congregation, mainly for tourists who come to marvel at the chapel's 'miraculous' spiral staircase. The chapel, copied from Sainte-Chapelle Church in Paris,...  see full details

El Rancho de las Golondrinas

The 'Ranch of the Swallows' (El Rancho de las Golondrinas) is a living history site that was originally a real ranch, founded in the early 1700s, today offering an entertaining and educational attraction about 15 miles (24km) south-east of Santa Fe's central Plaza, on...  see full details