Loretto Chapel Santa Fe

207 Old Santa Fe Trail, Between Alameda and Water sts. Santa Fe , New Mexico, United States - Phone: 505-982-0092

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    Santa Fe

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    ... Santa Fe. We learnt lots about the history of Santa Fe and saw some fabulous buildings. We were very impressed with the Loretto Chapel - it was very beautiful and has a "miraculous" staircase that extends from the floor to the balcony without any ...

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    New Mexico--Santa Fe Albuquerque Amazing Scenery

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    ... around 1612 and the San Miguel Mission, built between 1600 and 1646 with parts dated back to 1100. The 131-year-old Gothic Loretto Chapel  is known for its "miraculous staircase", a spiral staircase to the choir loft with two 360-degree turns and ...

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    Foodie Heaven

    ... with beans, hot chocolate, and huevos with fried bananas--certainly not my usual breakfast nosh. Well satiated, I head to the Loretto Chapel, which is supposed to be designed after Sainte Chapelle in Paris, one of my favourite churches in Europe. ...

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    NEW MEXICO

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    ... stayed in the "Cowboy" room, of course (good choice Jenna!), and enjoyed the breakfasts and daily snacks. Santa Fe is the oldest capital city in the United States and is 7,000 feet above sea level.  It is a quaint, artsy, and walkable city unlike ...

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    The Enchanted state - too true

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    ... architecture is amazing and just blends with the landscape, the shapes and variance of colour give them individuality. Visited the Loretto Chapel to see the 'miraculous' self supporting spiral staircase and had a fantastic green chilli chicken stew ...

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    Do you know the way to Santa Fe?

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    ... .... OR maybe I just think they're cute... but who doesn't?) After all of that wandering, we went to the Loretto Chapel on Old Santa Fe Trail. Pretty cool..... basically, there is a spiral staircase in the chapel that goes from the naive to the choir ...

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    Santa Fe Day 2 - Exploring Santa Fe

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    ... a brief chat with the church lady as we exited. Our next point of interest was to visit the miraculous staircase of the Loretto Chapel, as seen on Unsolved Mysteries. The story goes that when the chapel was completed in 1878 there was no way to access ...

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    Into The Heart of The Southwest

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    ... kept its unique qualities. I’ll put this simply.  A visitor must include a stop at the Loretto Chapel if they are visiting Santa Fe.  While the staircase is worth seeing and pondering over, the architecture and the atmosphere are what ...

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    I'm west of the Pecos

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    ... imagine.  I came in from the south and went to the Cathedral Basilica of St Francis and to the nearby Loretto Chapel.  The chapel has a spiral staircase, which goes around 360 degrees twice and was built by an unknown carpenter with no nails or ...

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    Santa Fe....my kind of town

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    ... Indians in the original adobe style.      Just down the street, you come across the nice quaint Loretto Chapel.  Other than being the first Gothic style building West of the Mississippi (built between 1873 and 1878), the chapel ...