Locations:
El Camino Real International Heritage Center,
Loretto Chapel Staircase
Missions:
Nuestra Señora de la Asunción de Zia,
Nuestra Señora de los Angeles de Porciuncula de los Pecos,
Nuestra Señora de Purísima Concepción de Quarai,
San Agustín de la Isleta Mission,
San Buenaventura de Cochiti,
San Esteban del Rey de Acoma,
San Felipe Mission,
San Gregorio de Abó Mission,
San Ildefonso Mission,
San Buenaventura de Humanas (Gran Quivira) and San Isidro,
San José (Giusewa) de Jémez Mission,
San José de Laguna,
San Lorenzo de Picurís,
San Miguel Mission Chapel,
Santa Ana Pueblo Mission,
Santo Domingo Mission,
Santuario de Chimayó,
Santuario de Guadalupe
El Camino Real International Heritage Center
El Camino Real International Heritage Center is one of New Mexico's newest State Monuments, dedicated in November 2005.
El Camino Real is our country's oldest, and longest continuously used "highway," bringing European colonists to "New Spain" (New Mexico) beginning 22 years before the Mayflower. It has been designated a National Historic Trail.
Technically any road under the direct jurisdiction of the Spanish crown and its viceroys was a "camino real". Examples of such roads ran between principal settlements throughout Spain and its colonies such as New Spain. Most caminos reales had names apart from the appended "camino real". Once Mexico won its independence from Spain, no road in Mexico, including California, was any longer a camino real. The name was rarely used after that and was only revived in the American period in connection with the boosterism associated with the Mission Revival movement of the early 20th century.
El Camino Real International Heritage Center
30 miles south of Socorro, New Mexico on I-25, or about half-way between Socorro and Truth or Consequences. It is just a 5 minute drive east of I-25 at Exit 115 for easy on and off while traveling.
Phone: (575) 854-3600
www.caminorealheritage.org/
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