to the right of any Spanish word throughout the site to find out what it
means in English.Visit
the Place Where History Comes Alive!
El Rancho de las Golondrinas has a variety of festivals that are fun
for the whole family!
Many include the following activities:
* Baking bread and bizcochitos
in the hornos
* Blacksmith and wheelwright at work
* Outdoor Mass and San Ysidro procession
* Carding, spinning, washing and dyeing wool
* Weaving typical rugs, cloth and blankets
* Soap, candle and rope making
* Leather and woodworking
* Grinding corn and wheat by hand and with water mills
* Teaching in the one-room school
* Mountain men and military encampments
Event dates and descriptions below.
Two "American Girls"
get ready for a fun day at the rancho
Josefina
at Las Golondrinas™ Tours
Introduce your American Girl to Maria Josefina Montoya,
an Hispanic girl of heart and hope growing up in 1824 on her
family's rancho in New Mexico similar to El Rancho de las
Golondrinas. Arrange a special tour of the museum that highlights
the sites where the fictional Josefina character spent her days
with family doing chores and having fun.
Call 505-473-4169 for details about booking a very special
Josefina at Las Golondrinas tour for your very special American girl!
Spring is the time the little lambs
arrive at Las Golondrinas
Spring
Festival and Animal Fair
June 2-3 from 10 am - 4 pm
Learn about New Mexico's history the fun way! Costumed villagers
will tell you - and show you - about life on a Spanish colonial ranch.
Sheep sheering, blacksmithing and candle making are just some of
the activities your family will enjoy. Visit with critters large and small,
from horses to baby lambs to snakes and everything in between. You
may also participate in an outdoor Mass and procession for San Isidro,
patron saint of farmers. Enjoy music and dancing on our entertainment
platform and buy arts and crafts directly from the artisans.
August 3,4 & 5 from 10 am - 4 pm
Meet the colorful characters who put the wild in wild west!
Mountain men and women will demonstrate their skills and spin tales
of the past at encampments throughout the ranch. Flint knapping,
panning for gold, hide tanning and bow making are just some of the
activities your family will be able to observe and participate in.
Limited activities on Friday.
August 11-12 from 10 am - 4 pm
There is a lot more to New Mexico music than Mariachi!
Influences from native cultures, Mexico and Spain will be celebrated,
but we will also look at things a bit closer - tracing the origins
of Flamenco back to Egyptian belly dance for example.
Local musicians and dance groups will educate and entertain you; and
children will enjoy a castanet workshop and making their own musical
instruments from recycled objects.
Making Retablos
Uniquely New Mexico: Food,
Art & Adobe!
August 25-26 from 10 am - 4 pm
A million things make New Mexico unique. On this weekend, we’ll celebrate three of them. Sample foods made from traditional recipes and using crops grown on the ranch; make adobe bricks and learn the basics of building with them; paint a retablo with a master santero or learn to do decorative tinwork with an hojalatero. You will leave with even more love for the Land of Enchantment than you came with!
ALSO: New Mexico is known for balloons! Weather permitting, your family will be able to take a ride in a tethered hot air balloon. (This has previously happened during Fiesta de los Ninos)
Diligent young builders
make a miniature adobe houses.
Fiesta de los Niños
- A Celebration for Children
September 1-2 from 10 am - 4 pm
Ven a jugar con nosotros! Come out and play with us! Your children will
have fun learnig about history as they try on historic costumes of the Spanish
settlers and build their very own miniature adobe house. Storytellers and cost-
umed villagers - not to mention burros, goats and sheep - will bring this Span-
is colonial ranch to life and inspire young minds; magicians and miniature horses
will delight and entertain them.
ALSO: The Peruvian Paso horses of La EstanciaAlegre, the steeds of the
Conquistadors of Peru, will perform routines and delight you with their
unmatched gait and elegant tack (they have previously performed at Summer Festival).
Doing it the old fashioned way, a young
volunteer crushes grapes to make wine
Harvest
Festival
October 6-7 from 10 am-4 pm
Our most popular event! Bring in the harvest with the villagers of El Rancho
de las Golondrinas,crushing grapes for wine by foot; grinding sorghum with
burros, stringing colorful chile ristras, and much, much more. Enjoy bizcochitos
fresh from the horno and tortillas hot off the comal. You may also participate
in an outdoor Mass and procession for San Isidro, led by the Archbishop of
Santa Fe, enjoy music and dancing on our entertainment platform and buy arts
and crafts directly from the artisans. You will never look at history the same way again!
Photos courtesy of Ms. Shirley Barnes
Be sure to visit us on your next trip to Santa Fe!
El Rancho de Las Golondrinas is located at 334 Los Pinos Road, Santa Fe,
NM 87507 Phone: (505) 471-2261 Fax: (505) 471-5623
Email: mail@golondrinas.org
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