El Camino Real International Heritage Center
Photo Gallery - Inside the Visitor's Center
Inside the Heritage Center
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The entrance to the Visitor's gallelry. Through the entrance, visitors step back in time 300 years to emerge
in the old plaza of Zecatecas, Mexico to begin their journey along El Camino Real.
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The caretta carried thousands of people, and their belongings, along El Camino Real.
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The Plaza de Zacatecas as it appeared 300 years ago. All exhibits and interpretive displays are in English
and Spanish.
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A gentle ramp begins El Camino Real, with displays and exhibits describing the trail and the regions it
passed through in the 1600 and 1700s.
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The trail ends on the Santa Fe plaza.
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El Camino Real also brought culture, religion and literature from the old world that formed the heritage
of today's Mexico and New Mexico.
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A tienda, or store, shows some of the items that were sold, and neccessary, for life in Mexico and New Mexico
in colonial days.
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