Golondrinas Old Cienega Village Museum

Las Golondrinas was a paraje, a sanctioned stopping place on the Camino Real, the last camp for northbound caravans before the day's ride into Santa Fe; Governor Juan Bautista de Anza stayed here with a party of 151 while seeking a direct road to Sonora. The museum that opened in 1972 is partly assembled. Beside the original buildings stand others moved in from across northern New Mexico, among them a large mill brought from Sapelló, and the ranch's acequia system is on the State Register. The panel itself has faded badly.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Palace of the Governors — 12 mi
  The long adobe on the north side of the Santa Fe plaza, called the oldest public building in continuous use in the country, though its own founding date is in dispute.
• Bandelier National Monument — 17 mi
  Rooms carved into soft volcanic tuff in Frijoles Canyon, named for a Swiss scholar who was led there in 1880 by a man from Cochiti Pueblo.
• Fuller Lodge — 24 mi
  The upright-log dining hall of a boys' ranch school, which fed and housed the Manhattan Project after the Army bought the school in 1942.
• Pecos National Historical Park — 24 mi
  The red walls of a 1717 mission church inside the foundations of a far larger one, beside the kiva Pecos people dug in front of the old church during the revolt of 1680.

More markers nearby

• Doña Rosa Bustamante (1735-1814) — 1.6 mi
• Vega y Coca Sisters — 1.6 mi
• Sisters of Charity — 4.1 mi
• Maria Gertrudis Barceló, Doña Tules — 4.1 mi