Taos Pueblo
An indigenous community with multi-storey adobe houses, inhabited for about a thousand years at the foot of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is visited under its own rules.
Novo México · the United States
In the destination Santa Fe and Albuquerque.
In the photo: Taos town hall building
Illustrative images. The pictures in this guide are illustrations based on the real place, not photographs, and may differ from it.
The city
Small artists’ town in northern New Mexico, on a high plain beside the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, closer to the Colorado border. It has an adobe plaza with galleries and, on the outskirts, Taos Pueblo, inhabited for about a thousand years and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the bridge over the Rio Grande gorge, and the Church of San Francisco de Asís.
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The local experience
An indigenous community with multi-storey adobe houses, inhabited for about a thousand years at the foot of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is visited under its own rules.
A 1965 steel bridge over the Rio Grande gorge, west of Taos, roughly 200 meters above the water, with a pedestrian walkway and plateau views.