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By Sarah Pascarella: I've talked up vacation rentals quite a lot in the past. They're an outstanding value, often providing more room and amenities for your travel dollars than a typical hotel. Rentals can be found in all corners of the globe, from ski destinations to world capitals, spring break beaches to secluded shores. They come in all shapes and sizes, from condo rentals to cozy cabins, sprawling chalets to city apartments.

Fully equipped kitchens allow you to cook some or all of your meals, thus saving money over pricey restaurants. Larger spaces enable groups to travel together and split the lodging costs, offering more affordable per-night rates overall than hotels. read more

Applicable to reservations that commence before the end of June. See details.

Located in the desirable East side, this luxury Santa Fe Style casa within three blocks of the renowned Canyon Road art district rents well in advance. Spring in Santa Fe ... priceless.

Military drills, skirmishes and cannon fire will highlight two action-filled days, including reenactments of the battles of Glorieta Pass and Apache Canyon fought near Santa Fe during the War Between the States.Visit Confederate and Union camps, and more!

By HENRY SHUKMAN, NY Times: I CAN'T remember how or why it came to be dawn when I first saw Santa Fe from a bus window. It was my first time in New Mexico, the fulfillment of a long-held dream: to visit the land that had inflamed my imagination when as a teenager I'd read D. H. Lawrence's paeans to the state.

The desert slowly emerged out of a velvet blackness, became a watery blue, almost the blue of a swimming pool. Then just as we got to the top of the long climb of La Bajada Hill and the Sangre de Cristo mountains sprang into view, the wing of darkness over the earth withdrew, and the true daytime colors began to show, rusty-brown as a cougar's hide. Ahead, the gaunt lump of the mountains, receiving the first red blush on their faces. At their feet, the mingling of the lights of town with stars of sunlight winking from distant windows. ...full article

For a perfectly located luxury vacation rental home, check out Casa Carino.

Planning a Santa Fe getaway vacation in June? Reserve your lodging now and mark your calendar: June 11-13, 2010 at Eaves Movie Ranch, Santa Fe NM's premier roots music event features ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL, DAVE ALVIN & THE GUILTY WOMEN, PO' GIRL, JT & THE CLOUDS & dozens more folk, blues, Cajun, zydeco, bluegrass, roots rock & world music artists on 3 stages all weekend long.

On 28 February 2010 -- Join us on the deck at Totemoff's (mid-mountain bar) from 12:00noon to 3:00pm for the fourth concert in our series. Rose's Pawn Shop, of LA, is the entertainment. Your lift ticket or season pass is the cover charge.

♦ The Upper Mountain is open. 75% of the mountain will be available. Hours of operation will be 9:00am to 4:00pm.
♦ Check out our New Intermediate run from the Millennium chair. Lobo will join our grooming report as one of the runs groomed from this chair lift. Enjoy your cruise through this vesy scenic portion of the ski area.

For the 18th year in a row, the sophisticated travelers who subscribe to Conde Nast Traveler magazine voted Santa Fe to be one of their favorite travel destinations in the U.S. Santa Fe was selected as the third most popular travel city in the country after San Francisco and Charleston, SC. Santa Fe bumped New York out of the third spot this year and joins a host of desirable travel towns in the magazine's 22nd Annual Readers' Choice Awards. In 2008 Santa Fe was ranked in the fourth spot.

"The big news is that, undaunted by tough times, our readers are still out there, discovering the coolest experiences and reaffirming an enduring passion for travel," said Conde Nast Traveler Editor in Chief Klara Glowczewska. "It's clear that our readers are as devoted to the worldwide diversity of travel as ever."

Santa Fe has been rated as one of the top U.S. travel destinations by the poll since 1992 when Santa Fe was just a write-in candidate but received enough votes from the magazine's readers to be chosen the number one travel destination in the world.

The "Top eight US Cities" as ranked in the 22nd Annual Conde Nast Traveler Readers' Choice Awards: #1. San Francisco; #2. Charleston, SC; #3. Santa Fe; #4. New York; #5 Chicago; #6 Honolulu; #7 Carmel; #8 Savannah.

In recent years The Mystical Arts of Tibet tours, featuring the famed multiphonic singers of Drepung Loseling monastery, have taken the world by storm. Endorsed by His Holiness the Dalai Lama as a means of promoting world peace and healing through sacred performing art.

"...remarkable...the music and the dance invoke sacred ecstasy..." -- The New York Times

Aspen Santa Fe Ballet's presentation of The Nutcracker is a magical journey not to be missed. Children of all ages will marvel at this sumptuous production with its magnificent sets and thrilling dance with a cast of over 60 dancers, actors, and circus artists. Year after year, families cherish this whimsical holiday tradition.

"This beloved tradition comes around once a year but creates lifelong memories."
-The Aspen Times

For your Holiday lodging, Check out "Run Away To Santa Fe".

Join the tradition as this annual candle-lit procession of Las Posadas travels around the Santa Fe Plaza and concludes in the Palace of the Governors' courtyard with carols, cookies and refreshments. This free, family event recreates Mary and Joseph's search for a place to give birth to the Baby Jesus. Reserve the Casa Carino vacation home now for a traditional Santa Fe Christmas!

Reserve Casa Carino now, the perfect hangout for the Santa Fe Film Festival, running from Dec 2 through Dec 6. The Santa Fe Film Festival presents important world cinema in a non-commercial context that represents aesthetic, critical and entertainment standards. The Festival premiers New Mexico produced films, new American and foreign independent film. Partnering with leading film industry companies, film educators, directors, producers, known actors, as well as, other non profits we provide a forum for filmmakers, critics, film enthusiasts and historians.

For the eighth year in a row, Santa Fe has made Travel + Leisure (T+L) magazine's "World's Best Awards" list of top 10 favorite Continental United States and Canadian travel destinations. For 2009 Santa Fe is ranked as the fifth most popular travel city in North America by the magazine's travel-savvy readers. In 2008 Santa Fe was also in the poll's fifth spot while in 2007 Santa Fe ranked fourth. Clearly, Santa Fe remains an enduring favorite with the publication's large group of sophisticated and passionate travelers.

"For Santa Fe to be consistently rated as a travel destination on a par with cities like New York, San Francisco, Chicago, and Quebec City is a tribute to Santa Fe's enduring appeal and customer satisfaction," said Keith Toler, Executive Director of the Santa Fe Convention & Visitors Bureau. "Visitors are seeking something genuine and original in their travels and Santa Fe's history, culture, people, and attractions deliver that authenticity," he said.

Reserve you vacation rental home now for a fabulous holiday season!

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.

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.

Santa Fe is gorgeous in September. Get your vacation home reservation now and attend the Zozobra festival on September 10. Per the official Zozobra website...

Fiesta has been celebrated in Santa Fe since 1712 by proclamation of the then-governor of the province Jose Chacon Medina Salazar y Villaseor, the marquis of Penuela. It is the oldest civic celebration of its kind in North America. ZOZOBRA, which has gone up in flames every year since Will Shuster created it in 1924, became one of the symbols of the city, a potent reminder of the madcap celebrations of those times and one artist's generous dedication to his adopted home.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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