Each year the Santa Fe Convention & Visitors Bureau publishes a free guide of vital information for visitors to Santa Fe. The guide is especially relevant for 2010 as Santa Fe will spend all year marking its 400th Anniversary.

The Official 2010 Santa Fe Visitors Guide is distributed annually to travelers, meeting and convention participants, and folks simply interested in the city.
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The daily American Eagle direct flight from Dallas to the Santa Fe Municipal Airport makes its first trip on June 11 and the timing couldn't be better for art lovers.

The prestigious Sculpture Objects and Functional Art Fairs (SOFA) of Chicago and New York opens its first annual Santa Fe edition on June 11, continuing through Sunday, June 14.
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American Eagle will add a second daily, round-trip flight between the Santa Fe Municipal Airport and Dallas-Fort Worth on November 19, the same day new service between Los Angeles LAX and Santa Fe is scheduled to begin. The airline's first Dallas to Santa Fe service began June 11, 2009. It has been successful enough, with mostly full flights, to prompt the company to add a second connection.
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American Eagle Announces New Air Service Between Santa Fe & Los Angeles
News of daily flight beginning November 19, 2009 comes as first Eagle flight from Dallas lands in Santa Fe

June 11: American Eagle will begin new daily, roundtrip air service between the Santa Fe Municipal Airport and Los Angeles LAX beginning on November 19, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson announced.
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The Inaugural flight of American Eagle's new daily, non-stop service between Los Angeles and Santa Fe took off from the city's municipal airport on November 19, 2009 becoming the third daily flight now serving the city. The Los Angeles service was joined by a second daily flight from Dallas to Santa Fe that also began service on 11/19. The two new flights are in addition to the first daily Dallas to Santa Fe flight that began serving the city in mid-June.
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Santa Fe's new Community Convention Center, which opened in late summer of 2008, was just awarded a LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Gold Certification, confirming Santa Fe's commitment to environmental responsibility and the merit of the center's design, construction, and operation. The rigorous process began with the design competition in 2005 and continued through the new center's first year of operation as data was gathered and processed.
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Fall may be the best season of all for a visit to Santa Fe. The city's charm, romance, and appeal mix with clear, crisp weather, the Rocky Mountains' beautiful fall colors, and some special savings for a seasonal deal on a Santa Fe stay.

The Inn and Spa at Loretto is celebrating Santa Fe's 400th Anniversary with the Santa Fe 400 Package.
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The 11th Annual Gumball 3000 Rally will bring its festival of music, fashion, fun, and lots of cars to Santa Fe on the evening of May 4th and the morning of May 5th. The coast to coast, "Sea to Shining Sea" event will include 120 cars of all kinds, from exotic sports cars and vintage cars to American muscle cars and the latest green vehicles.
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The National Trust for Historic Preservation (NTHP) named Santa Fe, NM one of the organization's Dozen Distinctive Destinations in America for 2009. Noted for its individual architectural style, well-preserved historic districts, and dedication to cultural conservation, Santa Fe is both a living link to the past and a modern-day travel destination with its own sophisticated style.
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The doors of the newly created New Mexico History Museum in Santa Fe will open to the public for the first time May 24, 2009, during Memorial Day weekend. The state-of-the-art, immersive, interactive exhibition about New Mexico's complex and colorful stories will forever banish the notion of history as boring and un-engaging.
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Santa Fe is one of 30 popular American cities ranked in Travel + Leisure's 2009 America's Favorite Cities poll, the results of which were revealed today online.
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10/2009: The sophisticated travelers who subscribe to CONDE NAST TRAVELER magazine have voted Santa Fe 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 and ahead of New York, at #4, and 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.
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Pat Westcott, CMP, with Great Cities is partnering with the Sales Department of the Santa Fe Convention & Visitors Bureau representing the bureau to Colorado's many groups, businesses, and associations.
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For the fourth year in a row the art-loving readers of AmericanStyle Magazine have rated Santa Fe the top small city for art in the country. In fact, Santa Fe has appeared in the magazine's Top 25 list of American art cities since the poll began.

With a history of art dating back to its Native American origins and carried on in numerous styles right through today, Santa Fe has evolved as one of America's most important art towns, regardless of size.
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Santa Fe has long been known as a healing place for the mind and body. Whether enjoying a hotel spa, day spa, natural healing treatment, or simply soaking up a little down time, Santa Fe is a perfect backdrop for relaxation and rejuvenation. In Santa Fe for 2009 there are several new spas in the area, an online complimentary healing resource, and upgrades to some of the city's best-known facilities.
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American Eagle will begin new daily, roundtrip air service between the Santa Fe Municipal Airport and Los Angeles LAX beginning on November 19, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson announced. He revealed news about the flight today, June 11, 2009 at the Santa Fe airport during a press conference held after the first of American Eagle's direct service flights between Dallas and Santa Fe landed.

"This will be an important connection to the West Coast from Santa Fe," said Governor Richardson.
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7/10/2009: 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.
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The people of Santa Fe have been working long and hard to capture the city's spirit, imagination, and pride in advance of the commemoration of Santa Fe's 400th Anniversary. As the oldest European settlement west of the Mississippi there is extensive ground to cover prior to this milestone. Wonderful plans have already taken shape and much more is in process to mark the founding of one of America's most historic and vibrant cities.
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Mark Lyman, Founder/Director of the International Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Fairs in Chicago and New York, announced a new edition of SOFA to be launched June 11 - 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. Lyman says, "I'm also delighted that the Opening Night First Choice Preview, will benefit the New Mexico Museum of Art's inaugural Design Collection.
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After adding a second Dallas flight and a Los Angeles flight in mid-November, a third American Eagle direct flight between the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport and the Santa Fe Municipal Airport will begin service on February 11, 2010 the airline announced. The new schedule calls for an early morning departure from Santa Fe to Dallas and a mid-evening departure from Dallas to Santa Fe.
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Taking in Santa Fe's Winter Sun

Winter is value season in Santa Fe. All of the city's historic charm, varied attractions, and timeless appeal are in place even as lodging is at its lowest cost of the year and visitors have the city to themselves. Whether skiing in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains just outside of town, exploring the city's diverse shopping and art districts, or taking time out to be with the one you love, Santa Fe remains true to its reputation for sophisticated relaxation.
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On the weekend of 20-22 February 2009, Santa Fe transforms into a moveable feast that takes place in cozy galleries and glorious banquet halls throughout the city. The marriage of fine art and fine food in the 12th Annual ARTfeast Santa Fe features the City Different's world-class chefs and restaurants, an international array of vintners, wearable art, and unique homes, along with nationally and regionally prominent artists represented by members of the Santa Fe Gallery Association.
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New Santa Fe Area Comes to Life this Spring

Spring in Santa Fe promises to be green and lush after good snowfall over the winter. Following the first flush of annual color will come the blooming of the Santa Fe Railyard, www.sfrailyardcc.org, an exciting development adjacent to the Santa Fe Southern rail line in the Guadalupe Street area.
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The Santa Fe Convention Center held its official opening September 25, 2008-the only date available when the new facility wasn't already busy and booked. Even as finishing touches on the building were taking place, the center hosted Santa Fe Mayor David Coss' state of the city speech on September 3 and several Santa Fe Fiesta events before going into an active fall schedule of meetings and multi-day conferences.
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Santa Fe began a period of change in 2008 that will continue for the next several years, leading to a fresh face on the city and a new portrait of Santa Fe's remarkable history. The Santa Fe Railyard, new Santa Fe Community Convention Center, Palace of the Governors History Museum expansion, and almost two years of events commemorating the city's 400th Anniversary have the city looking forward to its future.
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For decades Santa Fe has been the destination wedding location of choice for couples from around the world. Few days are charged with higher expectations and with so much planning and emotion in every single detail, Santa Fe's relaxed pace, romantic charm, and large group of knowledgeable wedding experts put even the most frazzled bridal party at ease.
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Each year the Santa Fe Convention & Visitors Bureau publishes a free guide of vital information for visitors to Santa Fe. The Official 2009 Santa Fe Visitors Guide is distributed annually to 400,000 travelers, convention participants, and folks simply interested in the city. As of the first of the year, the new 2009 guide became available, just in time for planning winter trips or dreaming about what to do when the warm weather returns.
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Santa Fe was chosen as one of America's Top 25 Destinations by TripAdvisor® in the 2008 Travelers' Choice® Destinations Awards. In its inaugural year, the TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice Destinations Awards honor the world's top destinations, earning their distinction from those who know them best - real travelers.

Only TripAdvisor's Destinations Awards represent the opinions of millions of travelers.
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Travel is one of life's great pleasures and most rewarding experiences. Give something back to the planet by offsetting the carbon emissions of your next Santa Fe trip with each purchase of renewable energy certificates from Bonneville Environmental Foundation.

Santa Fe and Green Energy New Mexico offer travelers a simple way to reduce the impact travel has on the environment by offsetting carbon emissions through the purchase of renewable energy certificates called BEF Carbon Offsets.
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For the first time, Santa Fe residents and visitors alike can easily find and experience practitioners and businesses that cater to those interested in natural healing through NewMexicoNatrualHealing.com. The site features the comprehensive natural healing community that thrives in Santa Fe and New Mexico--known as a "healing place" for centuries--making the state the premier alternative-healing destination in the United States.
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4/08: For the third year in a row the art-loving readers of AmericanStyle Magazine have rated Santa Fe the top small city for art in the country. In fact, Santa Fe has appeared in the magazine's Top 25 list of American art cities since the poll began.

With a history of art dating back to its Native American origins and carried on in numerous styles right through today, Santa Fe has evolved as one of America's most important art towns, regardless of size.
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The new Santa Fe Geocaching Challenge uses GPS (global positioning system) technology and some of the city's most prominent landmarks in an adventurous new way to explore the history and culture of Santa Fe. A high-tech treasure hunt using GPS devices, the Santa Fe challenge takes participants on a tour of historic downtown with some unexpected surprises along the way and prizes for those who find all of the locations.

Geocaching has developed worldwide interest as a fun adventure activity.
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Santa Fe has been recognized as New Mexico's top city for walkers and was rated as one of the top 100 walking cities in America by Prevention magazine and the American Podiatric Medical Association (APMA). Santa Fe was ranked as the 22nd best walking city in the country from a survey of 500 American towns.
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The new Santa Fe Convention Center opened in September, 2008. It faced all the hurdles of municipal construction plus a few more, owing to its location in a historic city and the desire to build and operate the center in as 'green' a manner as possible.

In a town poised to commemorate the 400th anniversary of its founding, the impact of new construction on its most historic district is taken seriously.
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ART Santa Fe 2009 will be held July 23-26, 2009.

Galleries come from across the nation and Europe to participate in ART Santa Fe and it has been consistently reported to be a positive experience for them and for their collectors. So much so, in fact, that the number of requests for an annual fair simply became impossible to refuse. Julie Baker, whose gallery in Nevada City, California, carries the work of emerging artists, stated that "ART Santa Fe.. was great for us.
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SITE Santa Fe's Seventh International Biennial
June 22 - October 26, 2008

SITE Santa Fe was founded in 1995 with the purpose of presenting the only international biennial in the United States. We have welcomed six extraordinary curators here, and each one of them created an equally extraordinary biennial.

Lucky Number Seven will take place in the summer of
2008 and will be curated by Lance Fung. His vision for the Biennial is the most risk-taking and dynamic yet proposed.
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The 6th Annual Santa Fe International Folk Art Market
JULY 11-12, 2009

More than 147 master folk artists from 45 countries have been selected by a committee of experts to participate in the sixth annual Santa Fe International Folk Art Market, July 11-12, 2009.
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As Santa Fe continues preparations for its 400th Anniversary in 2010, two major projects that have been in development for the last several years open this autumn; the Santa Fe Railyard and the new Santa Fe Community Convention Center. The Santa Fe Railyard Park + Plaza is destined to be a new town hub.
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Santa Fe For Family Travel: Santa Fe offers the traveling family a different sort of vacation. Instead of walking the mall there are centuries old Anasazi villages to explore. Rather than a roller coaster there is mountain biking. In place of the world's biggest ball of twine there is the world's largest collection of folkart.
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December Holidays in Santa Fe - 2008
Santa Fe Xmas: Like so many things in Santa Fe, Christmas is celebrated just a little differently here. The combination of Western, Hispanic and Native American traditions blend into a holiday celebration not duplicated anywhere else

Candles in Bags - Known locally as farolitos, these small bags filled with sand and lit from within by votive candles are Northern New Mexico's version of traditional Christmas decorations.
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For Immediate Release

UNESCO Creative Tourism Conference Teaches Fundamentals of Latest Travel Trend.

Santa Fe International Conference on Creative Tourism, "A global Conversation," features world's leaders on creative tourism.
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Four Commissioned Premieres by Saariaho, Sierra, Ruo and Tower, Completion of Beethoven String Quartet Cycle Among Musical Offerings of Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival's 36th Season.
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It should come as no surprise that UNESCO just made Santa Fe America's first Creative City during a July (7/8/05) ceremony inducting the city into the Creative Cities Network in both Folk Art and Design. For decades Santa Fe has been a center for original thought and enterprise. Walking up Canyon Road, Santa Fe's most visible art district, one can almost feel the creativity vibrating from each of the galleries along the street.
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11/06: Construction of the Santa Fe Convention Center, in Santa Fe, New Mexico began on the last day of November, 2006 with a ceremonial ground breaking. Many of the Santa Fe citizens, organizations, design professionals, and city government representatives who brought the 25 year process to a successful conclusion were on hand for, what is seen as, a milestone in Santa Fe's development.
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