Some visitors find Santa Fe particularly attractive around the second week of September when the aspens in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains turn yellow and the skies are clear and blue. This is also the time of the annual Fiesta when Santa Feans burn Zozobra, a fifty-foot puppet also called “Old Man Gloom.” See also: Abipones
History
Santa Fe was founded in 1607, making it the oldest capital city and the second oldest city(aside from Jamestown, Virginia) founded by the European colonists in what land was later to become part of the United States, behind St. Augustine, Florida (1565). Santa Fe was the capital of Nuevo México, a province of New Spain explored by Coronado and established in 1598. The city was founded by Don Pedro de Peralta, New Mexico’s third governor. Peralta gave the city its full name, “La Villa Real de la Santa Fe de San Francisco de Asís", or “The Royal City of the Holy Faith of Saint Francis of Assisi".
Except for the years 1680-1692, when the native Pueblo people drove the Spaniards south for a while, Santa Fe remained Spain’s provincial seat until 1810, with the outbreak of the Mexican War of Independence, and, in 1824, the city’s status as the capital of the Mexican territory of Santa Fe de Nuevo México was formalized in the 1824 Constitution. In 1848 New Mexico was acquired by the United States from Mexico, and in 1912 New Mexico became that country’s 47th state, with Santa Fe as its capital.
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