Taos New Mexico

Church Rancho De Taos

Harvest Time

Plaza De Taos

TAOS

Taos- Taos, New Mexico is a blend of several cultures, primarily influenced by Native American, Mexican, Spanish and Anglo heritage. Visitors are welcomed to Taos and find a world of invinitely varied experiences.

Taos Pueblo, an ancient living Indian village, has a detailed oral history which is not divulged due to religious privacy. Archaeologists say that ancestors of the Taos Indians lived in this valley long before Columbus discovered America and hundreds of years before Europe emerged from the Dark Ages. Ancient ruins in the Taos Valley indicate our people lived here nearly 1000 years ago. The main part of the present buildings were most likely constructed between 1000 and 1450 A.D

Explore historic Taos Plaza and its side streets. Many of the old adobe buildings that now house shops and galleries were once the homes of some of Taos' leading citizens - Kit Carson, among them. Bent street, and others take the visitor into back alley ways that lead into an array of eclectic shops, restaurants, gallerys, and taverns.

Another tour popular with visitors, the High Road travels through awe-inspiring scenery and remote mountain villages that cling to their Spanish colonial roots. In Ranchos de Taos, you will find the San Francisco de Asis Mission. With its massive adobe buttresses, high ceilings with vigas and hand-carved corbels, the mission is Taos' most photographed and painted church. Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams are two of many artists who have depicted the church in their work.