Cathedral Park

Cathedral Park, located just to the north of the Cathedral Basilica of Saint Francis de Assisi, is a quiet pocket park offering people benches to sit and rest while touring Santa Fe. Dedicated to the first settlers of Santa Fe, there are informational plaques set around the park giving the history of the city. There's a statue of Don Diego de Vargas, the man who led the Spanish upon their 1692 return to Santa Fe after fleeing during the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. The large statue at the park's center commemorates Santa Fe's Spanish Colonial history. Among the figures depicted are a Conquistador, a Franciscan monk and a family of Spanish settlers. They rest atop fruits, vegetables, tools and musical instruments symbolic of what the settlers brought when they arrived as well as the animals that supported life in an austere environment.