Hispanic Heritage Tours
Plan a tour to recognize and celebrate the many contributions, diverse cultures, and extensive histories of the American Latino community. Visit festivals, art shows, conferences, community gatherings, and much more that recognize Hispanic contributions to the United States.
Cathedral Basilica of St. Augustine
The Cathedral Basilica of St. Augustine (Spanish: Catedral basílica de San Agustín) is a historic cathedral in St. Augustine, Florida, and the seat of the Catholic Bishop of St. Augustine. It is located at 38 Cathedral Place between Charlotte and St. George Streets. Constructed over five years (1793–1797), it was designated a U.S. National Historic Landmark on April 15, 1970. Its congregation, established in 1565, is the oldest Christian congregation in the contiguous United States.
Old Spanish National Historic Trail
Follow the routes of mule pack trains across the Southwest on the Old Spanish National Historic Trail between Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Los Angeles, California. New Mexican traders moved locally produced merchandise across what are now six states to exchange for mules and horses. Old Spanish National Historic Trail extends 2,700 miles across New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, and California. There are museums, historic sites, landmarks, and trail markers located along the trail.
Palace of the Governors
Since 1610, this block-long, one-story adobe building has housed the offices and living quarters of 58 Spanish Colonial Governors, 16 Mexican Governors, four military and three civilian governors during U.S. rule, and 17 Territorial Governors. The building endured the 1680 Pueblo Indian Revolt; the 1692-1693 Spanish reconquest; the 1846 arrival of Brigadier General Kearny (who raised the U.S. flag here and declared New Mexico a part of the U.S.); and the 1862 invasion of Texas Confederate troops.
Santa Fe Trail traders once rented rooms here from which they sold their wares. At night in his living quarters here in 1878-80, New Mexico Territorial Governor Lew Wallace completed his second novel, Ben Hur, which made him rich and famous.
Los Alamos Ranch House
In 1839, during Mexico’s rule of Alta California, Jose Antonio de la Guerra received a land grant for 48,803 acres in the Los Alamos Valley. He named the ranch, “Rancho Los Alamos.” Los Alamos, which means “The Cottonwoods” in Spanish, is located midway between San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara. De La Guerra developed his ranch and built a one-story adobe home on his property. Today, this home is considered one of the finest examples of a Mexican period one-story adobe ranch house. The Los Alamos Ranch House, or Rancho Los Alamos (de la Guerra), is a National Historic Landmark that is an important reflection of the history of California’s Spanish and Mexican ranching period during the 1800s.
Trujillo Homesteads
The Trujillo Homesteads, settled in the 1860s and 1870s by Teofilo Trujillo and his son, Pedro, are located in Alamosa County along the western boundary of the Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve.
Teofilo Trujillo quickly made himself into one of the wealthiest Hispano ranchers in the area, and in the late 1870s and early 1880s, he secured the title to his land and started to acquire adjacent parcels.
In 2002, the Teofilo Trujillo Homestead was rediscovered with an archaeological assessment completed in 2006. It has experienced very little disturbance since Teofilo sold the land in 1902. The site still includes the ruins of an adobe structure as well as several artifacts.
In 2012, the Teofilo and Pedro Trujillo Homesteads were named a National Historic Landmark, making them the first Hispano homesteads in the Southwest to achieve the distinction.
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