Santa Fe Opera tour #4

From there we went on to Taos, where we enjoyed the many shops and had lunch.  Then we continued on to the Taos Pueblo, considered to be one of the oldest continuously inhabited communities in the US. 

Pueblo is defined as: "a North American Indian settlement of the southwestern US, especially one consisting of multistoried adobe houses built by the Pueblo people." For more information, view its website here."

It was a very hot day and difficult to spend nearly an hour outside having a guided tour of the Pueblo, but it was very interesting.  

Above picture shows the ruins of a Catholic Church which was destroyed in the War with Mexico by the U.S. Army in 1847. This church was first built in 1619 then destroyed in the Spanish Revolt of 1680 but soon rebuilt on the same site. 

The white gate in the above picture is the entrance to the Saint Geronimo (or St. Jerome) Chapel, built in 1850 to replace the Catholic church destroyed in 1847.  I took refuge from the extreme heat by sitting in the church a couple of times. There was a thunder and lightning storm in the hills while we were there and some welcome rain fell on us.

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