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Las Trampas

Taos County · NM Highway 76 -- mile marker between mile markers 23 and 24 -- Las Trampas -- in front of the historic Church of San José de la Gracia

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(SIDE 1) The village of Las Trampas was established as a Spanish-American agricultural community in 1751 by 12 families from Santa Fe led by Juan de Arguello, who received a land grant from Governor Tomás Vález Cachupín. The Church of San José de la Gracia, built between 1760 and 1776, is a National Historic Landmark and the community’s center where the agricultural cycle still is observed with religious ceremony and ritual. Parishioners periodically re-mud the adobe walls, which is as much as six-feet thick. It is considered one of the best preserved examples of Spanish Colonial architecture in New Mexico. (SIDE 2) El pueblo de Las Trampas se estableció como comunidad Hispano-Americana en el año 1751 por 12 familias de Santa Fe dirigidas por Juan de Argüello, recipiente de una merced de tierra del Gobernador Tomás Vélez Cachupín. La Iglesia de San José de la Gracia, construída entre 1760 y 1776, es un Monumento Histórico Nacional y el centro de la comunidad en la que el ciclo de a agricultura todavía se observa con rito y ceremonia. Periódicamente los parroquianos reparan las paredes de adobe, que tienen hasta dos metros de espespor. Se considera uno de los ejemplos mejor conservados de la arquitectura española en Nuevo México.

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