Fiestas de Santa Fe
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Fiestas de Santa Fe is a festival held every autumn in Santa Fe, New Mexico, usually during the second week of September.
Zozobra and fire dancers at the Santa Fe Fiesta
The Hysterical Pageant of the Fiesta c. 1930–1945
The burning of Zozobra at fiesta
Diego de Vargas
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Diego de Vargas Zapata y Luján Ponce de León y Contreras, commonly known as Don Diego de Vargas, was a Spanish Governor of the New Spain territory of Santa Fe de Nuevo México. He was the title-holder
Fiestas de Santa Fe
…a proclamation declaring there should be a celebration to commemorate the anniversary of the 1692 reconquest (recolonization) of New Mexico by General Don Diego de Vargas (1643–1704). The Spanish were earlier expelled from the city by neighboring Pueblo people during the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 and spent the next 12 years…
Oil on canvas portrait of Diego de Vargas by Julio Barrera, date unknown, from the collection of the Palace of the Governors