Old Town Albuquerque

Established in 1706 by New Mexico governor Francisco Cuervo y Valdés, Old Town Albuquerque predates the United States by generations — a village that has flown the flags of Spain, Mexico, and the United States. Indigenous peoples, including Diné, Pueblo, Apache, and Tiwa communities, inhabited this land long before that founding. The present district holds about ten blocks of adobe buildings around Old Town Plaza, anchored on the north by San Felipe de Neri Church, constructed in 1793 and the only building proven to date to the Spanish colonial period.