Right from the South Rim of the Grand Canyon we drove off across easterm Arizona to New Mexico. The destination being Santa Fe.
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'Santa Fe - one of the oldest and most famous cities of the Wild West. Its popularity came from the Sante Fe Route, one of
the most important ones in 18th and 19th centuries. In 1912 Santa Fe became the capital of New Mexico - 47th state of the United Sates of America.
Elegant houses deserve attention since they are in matching colours of sun dried bricks (covered, however, with modern plaster rather than with its traditonal clay equivalent). Uniformity of the architectural style, practically of the whole city, gives it unmatched charm and distiguishes Santa Fe from other American cities.'
We saw the city in the morning and dropped into the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. She has always fascinated me with her painting.
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'Georgia O'Keeffe (born 15 November 1887 not far from Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, died 6 March 1986 in Santa Fe) – an American painter. The topic of her paintings mainly were: flowers, rocks, shells, animal bones and landscapes. O'Keeffe transormed realistic topic into an abstrac painting.'
At noon we drove off to Albuquerque.
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'Albuquerque was founded in 1706 by the Spanish on the Camino Real Route. The name came from one of titles of the viceroy of New Spain - Francisco Fernández de la Cueva, the Duke of Alburquerque. Now it is the biggest city and the main centre of industry in the State.'
Rio Grande River flows across the city. It is called by the Mexicans Rio Bravo. Do you remember the westerns? We were looking down onto the river's current reminding ourselves Dean Martin and the film Rio Bravo.
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'The Rio Grande (known in Mexico as the Río Bravo del Norte, or simply Río Bravo) is a river that flows from southwestern Colorado in the United States to the Gulf of Mexico. Along the way it forms part of the Mexico – United States border. According to the International Boundary and Water Commission, its total length was 1,896 miles (3,051 km) in the late 1980s, though course shifts occasionally result in length changes. Depending on how it is measured, the Rio Grande is the fourth or fifth longest river system in North America.'
