Rain or shine, Paul now enjoys sharing his excitement about Santa Fe’s culture, history, and architecture with visitors from all over the world. A longtime outdoor sports enthusiast and history buff, he devoured as much information as he could about the Land of Enchantment before joining the Discovery City Walking Tour. Paul spent 40 years as an art director at CBS and ABC Television in Manhattan before coming to Santa Fe, where he was immediately captivated by the richness of the land and its people. Tom is a native of Taos and currently lives in Santa Fe. He especially enjoys sharing the beauty and history of Santa Fe on his walking tour. Tom helps visitors experience Santa Fe, native Pueblos, Spanish villages, the beautiful outdoors and unique cuisine. His love of history has resulted in Santa Fe’s two most recent books about the history of “The City Different.” He calls Santa Fe the Southwest’s Capital for history, culture, art and cuisine and he shares colorful summaries of all these subjects on his tours. He is known for his ability to combine all the stories he knows into a rich mosaic of one of the country’s most historic cities. Recently she added a Historical Architecture and Interior Design Tour which features many of Santa Fe's iconic buildings.Īs one of the most requested tour guides by hotels in Santa Fe, Allen likes to share the city’s rich history in the form of stories. In addition to History Walks, she also offers a Chocolate Tour, which includes the history of the amazing cacao tree as well as tastings from five of the chocolatiers in town. Her tours emphasize Santa Fe's diversity and culture and how that has shaped the beauty and development of the city to what it is today. She fell in love with its vibrancy, culture and history, eventually receiving a training through the New Mexico History Museum to become a historical walking guide. Sita has called Santa Fe home since 1979. These tours involve somewhat more distance than our other tours. Recommendation: Comfortable shoes and a bottle of water. La Posada (former home of Julia and Abraham Staab) and the beautiful interior of the Saint Francis Cathedral and La Conquistador Chapel." This tour additionally features the Saint Vincent Sanatorium (TB was a big player in the territorial time). We will also visit interiors representing many of these styles, ranging from churches, La Fonda hotel (a railroad and Fred Harvey legacy hotel), previous homes Including the Rainbow Man and the Inn of the Turquoise Bear (the home until recently of Witter Bynner, a very well known poet and socialite in Santa Fe in the 20 and 30's) and the State Capital Building.įor those who would like an extended tour, I include a 4-hour version. Later developments include the Neoclassical style popular in the 1800's and the recent and iconic Spanish Pueblo Rival style of present day. These styles range from the traditional adobe constructions brought here by the Spanish to the Territorial style, popular in the American Territorial time. This 3-hour tour offers an in-depth history of the architecture and designs styles over the last 400 years in the Santa Fe downtown district.
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