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Get your vacation home now for best availability for the always popular Santa Fe Wine and Chile Festival. Tickets and schedule available July 6 for the event running from September 23 through 27.

The Annual "RODEO! de Santa Fe" is sanctioned by the PRCA so there are names we will be seeing and hearing about in the world of Professional Rodeo. Our rodeo began in 1949 when Gene Petchesky and Austin "slim" Green had a dream and the determination to organize a rodeo in Santa Fe. This dream exceeded their expectations and became what is today, one of the top 100 rodeos in the nation. Reserve your Santa Fe Vacation Home now for this exciting event!

Reserve your vacation home now for the 2009 Indian Market! Each August for the past eighty years, Santa Fe Indian Market® has brought together the most gifted Native American artists from the U.S. with millions of visitors and collectors from around the world. The extended weekend of beauty and celebration ranks as the world's largest and most highly acclaimed Native American arts show and as New Mexico's largest attended annual weekend event.

The Santa Fe 400th Anniversary is furiously working to bring you the latest and greatest information on our commemoration slated to kick off Labor Day weekend 2009. Reserve your vacation home NOW for what will be a very popular time to be in Santa Fe! You'll want to be in walking distance to the downtown Plaza, parking spots will be virtually non-existent.

Sony Pictures' comedy "Did You Hear About the Morgans?", starring Sarah Jessica Parker and Hugh Grant, will shoot in New Mexico.

The comedy will film for 25 days in and around Roy, Pecos, Santa Fe, Galisteo and Los Alamos from early May through June (reserve your Santa Fe vacation rental now!). The production plans to hire at least 75 local crew members, plus over 1000 background talent. Additional filming will take place in New York.

The film is written and directed by Marc Lawrence (Music and Lyrics, Two Weeks Notice). Martin Shafer and Liz Glotzer produce. Anthony Katagas is the executive producer.

Reserve your Santa Fe lodging now for this special event. Don't miss the Gala festivities as we celebrate Charles MacKay and his first season as General Director. The weekend begins with the Gala Ball's "Singapore Nights" where you'll be taken away to an exotic film-noir setting while you enjoy a special performance by soprano Patricia Racette. Racette stars in this season's world premiere of Paul Moravec's The Letter.

Highlighted by the much-anticipated grand opening of the New Mexico History Museum, plus the debut of the Native Treasures Indian Arts Festival at the Santa Fe Community Convention Center, this year's kickoff to summer promises to be like no other.

Add the prestige of the 100th Anniversary of the Museum of New Mexico, and there's no reason for culture-lovers from all corners of New Mexico and beyond to miss one minute of this historic weekend.

Traveling to Santa Fe and need "walk-to-the-museum" lodging. How how a private residence with Eastside charm and Santa Fe Style luxury.

After you get settled into your Eastside vacation home, stock up on goodies at the Santa Fe Farmer's Market. Get your fresh greens, tomatoes, root veggies, winter squash, eggs, cheeses, meats, baked goods, teas, dried chile, original crafts, body care products, and much more! The Winter Market also features live music, a breakfast/lunch concession, and a cooking and gardening gift shop.

Did you know that the Santa Fe Farmers Market only allows vendors from 15 counties of Northern New Mexico? Also 80% of the ingredients in the baked goods, processed foods, and crafts sold by our vendors are grown in these 15 counties.

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CHICAGO September 15, 2008 Mark Lyman, Founder/Director of SOFA, Vice-President, dmg world media: Art & Antiques announced the new edition of SOFA, June 10 - 14, 2009 in Santa Fe, NM, the first city in the United States to be designated a UNESCO Creative City, as well as one of Travel + Leisure's 2008 World's Best Cities. SOFA WEST: Santa Fe will be held at the brand new state-of-the-art Santa Fe Convention Center with its stunning Pueblo Revival style design_adobe walls, viga beams, molded corners and kiva fireplaces. Lyman says, "Located in the heart of Santa Fe's historic downtown with an intimate 40,000 square feet of event space, the new Convention Center lends itself perfectly to a gem of a boutique SOFA fair, with an elite line-up of 40-45 dealers."

The New York Times Travel section wrote about Santa Fe in 2007: "For many decades it has been, and remains, a dynamo of American art and culture. O'Keeffe, Willa Cather, Bob Dylan, Bruce Nauman, Susan Rothenberg, Cormac McCarthy _the roll call of arts greats who have spent time there is disproportionate for such a far-flung desert oasis." It is also home to the famed Santa Fe Opera, set amid the dramatic backdrop of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, which many rank second only to New York's Metropolitan Opera in the United States. The handsome Convention Center is located within walking distance of Santa Fe's fine restaurants, museums and shopping, as well as 1,500 hotel and bed & breakfast rooms from the grand to the boutique to luxurious resorts with full-service spas. Long a melting pot of cultures, in recent years Santa Fe has come of age as a culinary capital, serving up innovative Southwestern to traditional Continental fare. Renowned also for its hundreds of shops in charming historic buildings, Santa Fe is a shopper's paradise of Southwest specialties as well as wonders from around the world. For nature lovers the city is surrounded by over 1.5 million acres of national forest, offering excellent hiking, camping, and downhill skiing. Santa Fe averages 300 days of sunshine and blue skies, and June is the most beautiful month of the year.

Reserve your vacation rental home now for this highly anticipated event.

Select this getaway for the weekend of festivities that celebrates the City Different's world-class chefs and restaurants, an international array of vintners, original designer fashions and unique homes, along with nationally and regionally prominent artists represented by members of the Santa Fe Gallery Association. All of this fun and food helps young people develop the skills needed to creatively respond to life. The first ARTfeast in 1998 included a handful of Santa Fe galleries that asked for donations during their Friday evening openings. Today, ARTfeast has grown to a weekend of artful events combined with sensational savories and drink, the proceeds from which benefit art programs for Santa Fe's youth.

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We all want to live long and be healthy. As it turns out, where you choose to live in the second half of your life can make all the difference. So, exactly what makes a city healthy? In doing our research, combing through the government records of hundreds of cities for more than 20 measures of vitality, we looked not only at the physical aspects of a community (clean air and water, for instance) but also at the health and habits of the people who live there.

Santa Fe's rates of diabetes, hypertension, and high cholesterol are among the lowest in the country, in part because of a city-funded health campaign aimed at older residents. In addition to offering a 268-bed hospital and easy access to specialists in nearby Albuquerque, Santa Fe is teeming with alternative medicine specialists who graduated from the local University of Natural Medicine or the New Mexico Academy of Healing Arts.

Known for its outdoor lifestyle and emphasis on healthy eating, Santa Fe boasts a network of trails that leads into the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. And Deborah Madison, author of several bestselling cookbooks, is a regular at the local farmers' market, which recently celebrated its 40th anniversary and has a new building in the city's rail yard.

Despite its relatively small size, the city has its own symphony and community orchestra, plus an opera with an international reputation and the annual High Mayhem Emerging Music and Arts Festival.

In 1608 the Castillian-born adventurer Juan Martinez de Montoya, a man described as "tall, of good feature, blackbearded," reported that he had "made a settlement at Santa Fe." The place he called Santa Fe was a beautiful little valley with a small river flowing through it, beneath the mountains a few miles east of the river named the Rio Grande. It grew into the capital of the province of New Mexico, and for more than one hundred and sixty years, until Monterey was established in California in the late eighteenth century, Santa Fe was the northernmost capital of a Spanish province in the New World.

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For over five decades Allan Houser's work was featured in gallery and museum exhibitions throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. In 1992, the same year he received the National Medal for the Arts, a major retrospective exhibition was organized by the Museum of New Mexico and toured throughout the United States. While Allan Houser passed into the spirit world in 1994, his work lives on and has since been featured at the White House Sculpture Gardens and in international museum exhibitions.

Santa Fe ranks just behind New York, San Francisco, and Charleston as 'Best City' in the United States, according to Conde Nast's 2007 survey of readers. And ahead of Chicago, Carmel, Honolulu, Savannah, San Diego, and Boston. Visit Run Away To Santa Fe for your vacation getaway in the nation's fourth best city.

Located in the East Side three short blocks from Canyon Road (near everyone's favorite Geronimo restaurant), and an easy one mile walk to the downtowm area, along Canyon Road, Alameda, or historic Pal ... read this item.

Your guest parking is just steps away from Casa Carino, with access to the front entry (around to the right) or the door to the garden and portal (covered patio). Santa Fe is not know for available pa ... read this item.

After that strenous afternoon shopping and dining along Canyon Road (after all, someone has to do it), this view of Casa Carino welcomes you on your return. Guest bedroom windows on left. Entry in cen ... read this item.

Portal (covered patio), great room / dining area, and master bedroom all enjoy the spectacular Western views to over the City Different and the Jemez mountains. In the Spring, hillside vegetation fill ... read this item.

Guest suite then kitchen entry on the left side. Garage door, laundry access, and office on the right. Leading down to the dining area and opening up into the great room. Master bedroom entry at far e ... read this item.

Looking down hallway from great room back to front door, you can see in the foreground the office with built-in desk and cabinets on the left (don't you hate to use bedrooms and dining tables for your ... read this item.

Comfort abounds in Casa Carino, and this top-of-the-line sleeper sofa lives up to that reputation. Enjoy sunset views seated in front of the kiva fireplace, with that "if-you-have-to-watch" TV a bit o ... read this item.

... on those cold Winter days. Santa Fe does receive snow, but typically a few inches that doesn't stay around long. Yes, occassionally you might wake up to a foot of snow; stoke up that fire!

Imagine dining in this lovely setting with a view overlooking Santa Fe and to the sunsets over the Jemez mountains in the West. In the summer, shade trees block the late afternoon sun yet maintaining ... read this item.

The fully equipped kitchen overlooking the great room and dining area will tempt you to prepare sensational Santa Fe dishes. But be sure to discover the fantastic Santa Fe restaurants. Decisions, deci ... read this item.