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Santa Fe
Capital city of New Mexico, United States

Santa Fe

Santa Fe is the capital city of the U.S.

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state of New Mexico. It is the fourth-most populous city in the state with a population of 87,505 as of the 2020 census, while the Santa Fe metropolitan area has an estimated 158,000 people. The greater Albuquerque–Santa Fe–Los Alamos combined statistical area includes eight counties in north-central New Mexico with 1.16 million residents. The county seat of Santa Fe County, Santa Fe is situated at the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains at the highest altitude of any U.S. state capital, with an elevation of 6,998 feet.

Get in

Getting to Santa Fe

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    Santa Fe Municipal Airport

    American Eagle Airlines operates daily service from Dallas/Fort Worth and Phoenix, while United Express has daily service from Denver.

See

Worth seeing

Like many towns founded by the Spanish, Santa Fe has a central square, the

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    Plaza

    For hours of entertainment, pull up a bench and people watch; you'll rapidly gain an appreciation for how the "City Different" nickname applies.

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    New Mexico Museum of Art

    107 W Palace Ave (just west of the Palace of the Governors),.

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    Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

    217 Johnson St (just north of downtown),.

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    Museum of Contemporary Native Arts

    108 Cathedral Pl (downtown across the street from St.

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    SITE Santa Fe

    A private contemporary arts venue with an ongoing schedule of exhibitions of artists who merit international recognition - this is really cutting edge stuff.

Do

Things to do

Santa Fe hosts a seemingly unending series of community fairs, festivals and celebrations, of which the most characteristic is the Fiesta de Santa Fe. This grand city-wide festival is held over the weekend after Labor Day in mid-September, after most of the summer tourists have left (and has been described as Santa Fe throwing a party for itself to celebrate the tourists leaving!).

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    Santa Fe International Folk Art Market

    A huge gathering of folk artists from around the world showing their work on the Milner Plaza at Museum Hill.

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    Santa Fe Indian Market

    This annual mid-August event is the most significant Santa Fe festival for tourists and collectors.

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    Santa Fe Opera

    301 Opera Drive (off US 285 on the north side of town),.

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    Center for Contemporary Arts
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    GiG
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    Greer Garson Theatre

    On the campus of the Santa Fe University of Art and Design; visit the web site to see what's playing there.

Eat

Where to eat

Santa Fe, and the rest of New Mexico, is known for its huge and spicy plates full of Southwestern food. Restaurants in Santa Fe run from expensive haute Southwestern to down-home fast-food style plates, where you will be asked "red or green" (chile). You can try a mix of both red and green chile peppers by asking for your dish "Christmas".

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    Santa Fe Farmers Market

    1607 Paseo de Peralta (Paseo de Peralta at Guadalupe),.

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    Five and Dime

    The former Woolworths on the Plaza was said to be the birthplace of the "Frito Pie"; it has since been replaced by the Five and Dime.

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    The Shed
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    La Choza

    It is open evenings and is on an obscure side street close to the main drag of St.

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    Posa's El Merendero

    1514 Rodeo Rd (secondary location at 3538 Zafarano Dr,.

How locals move

Getting around Santa Fe the local way

  • Get inYou can take a minibus from the terminal.

From Wikivoyage: Santa Fe (Panama), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2025-11.

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