Added: 01/31/2006 |
Santa fe vacations for art-loversAs a tourist destination, Santa Fe is among the chicest ones with its city parks, numerous restaurants, luxury resorts and cozy inns. However, having businesses and hotels, Santa Fe has cultural attractions, museums and galleries, drawing true art lovers to visit the city. At the beginning of the high-tech 21st century, Santa Fe is the only city in the world that still glorifies the historic Spanish architecture with adobe houses and baroque churches. Indeed, the city?s architectural preservation program makes it only legal to build new buildings, especially in historic districts, in the ancient style. Your Santa Fe vacations will start with immediate amazing impressions, produced by the city?s general overlook and if to visit Santa Fe for the sake of art appreciation and a discovery of new artistic forms and ideas, you will not leave disappointed.
How to plan cultural Santa Fe vacations? It is almost impossible to distinguish ?must see? places in Santa Fe, as each of the museums and art galleries stands out almost unique among the others. The same is about Santa Fe lodging, available in a variety of cozy inns and larger hotels. It is important to mention some of them so that your cultural Santa Fe vacations will continue the list with many other interesting sites.
Start your cultural Santa Fe vacations with a visit to the Awakening Museum. The Awakening is a monumental work of art that fills the ceilings and walls of the museum. It took Jean Claude Gaugy, an international artist, more than fifteen years to create four hundred panels, seven thousand and five hundred monumental painting, through which he expressed his love to God. The museum is a haven, where everyone can speculate, meditate and dream and it also promotes educational and charitable programs. One of them is ?Awakening in Action?, based on the understanding of art as a visual language that conveys a meaning and deepens a mutual understanding and responsibility.
Another place of high artistic value is Loretto Chapel, featuring a double helix staircase, constructed or inspired by St. Joseph the Carpenter according to the legend. It took at least six months to build the staircase and it has three hundred and sixty-degree turns with no visible means of support.
The Santa Fe Museum of International Folk Art is a unique museum, exhibiting a variety of handmade items. You can find a number of different sculptures and statues, made of a wide range of material. Each exhibit within this museum displays a different period and culture. For instance, you will see exhibits that are devoted to the Spanish-Colonial period and exhibits, containing artifacts and information about Eskimos.
The Georgia O?Keeffe Museum, created in honor of the famous American painter, Georgia O?Keefe, displays her fantastic art. You can enjoy diverse perspectives of her unique art, displayed through different exhibits.
Take into consideration the following vital statistics: according to the New Mexico Business Journal, Santa Fe, a small city of approximately seventy thousand residents, features two hundred and fourteen restaurants, five libraries, thirty seven city parks, one ski basin, four swimming pools, twenty seven tennis courts, one hundred and fifty art galleries, sixteen movie theaters, one opera, eight museums, one race track (horse), one golf course, fifty nine churches.
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