Hands on Santa Fe: As the first UNESCO Creative City in the US, Santa Fe has developed more than 170 hands on, creative tourism experiences through which visitors can learn about the city in a personal way, directly from the city's artists, designers, musicians, guides, authors, spiritual leaders and residents. For those who have seen it all, the creative tourism approach puts people in touch with an authentic experience that can't be replicated in a museum or shop window. In March Santa Fe artists open their studios for classes in painting, sculpture, jewelry making, drawing and weaving.

Getting to Santa Fe Ever Easier: Great Lakes Airlines began twice daily non-stop service from the Santa Fe Municipal Airptor to Denver International Airport in December, 2012. In May, 2013 United Airlines will begin serving the Denver-Santa Fe route with two more daily round trip flights. The new flights, in combination with American Eagles' existing three daily non-stops from Dallas and a daily non-stop from Los Angeles to Santa Fe, make getting directly to and from Santa Fe and the rest of the world easier than ever.

Spirited Pairings: Santa Fe's food scene has grown to include a thriving group of inventive mixologists. Some have won awards in international competitions for their creations. Others have gone on to found their own cocktail flavoring companies. All are making a lasting mark and broadening the city's palates.

Rejuvenation and Relaxation: Santa Fe is a center for complementary healing in all its many forms. Practitioners in Mind and Body, Movement and Energy Manipulation therapies make the city a top US destination for alternative healing. In addition, Santa Fe is filled with pampering spas featuring culturally inspired treatments and locally sourced ingredients.

Santa Fe Recipe for Adventure: From annual events like the Souper Bowl, ARTFeast, Restaurant Week and the Santa Fe Wine & Chile Fiesta to an ever evolving restaurant scene to cooking schools, including the newly opening Santa Fe Culinary Academy, to a year-round farmers market that keeps the freshest local ingredients on home and restaurant tables, the city loves its food.

Small Batch Delicious: Two local distilleries are making use of native ingredients to produce newly imagined and distinctively Santa Fe spirits. From un-aged, single malt whiskey to gin using desert botanicals to apple brandy from local orchards to an heirloom, single barrel straight bourbon these are spirits that speak of our place in the Southwest.

Explore History: Santa Fe's newest museum, the Pablita Velarde Museum of Indian Women in the Arts, is a national museum honoring the work of Native women from North America. Named for the first female student in the first Santa Fe Indian School art class, Pablita became the first Native woman to paint full time as a career. The museum features the work of Native painters, potters, sculptors, weavers, jewelers, dancers, musicians, film makers, poets and writers.

Summer Festival of Performing Arts: Summers in Santa Fe are when the calendar is at the bursting point with events of all kinds. Notable among the art markets, new museum exhibitions and gallery events is a steady stream of outstanding music and theater that makes up its own festival of performing arts. The 2013 Santa Fe Opera's season, June 28-August 24, includes Susan Graham in The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein, plus The Marriage of Figaro, La Donna Del Lago, La Traviata, and the world premier of Oscar. The Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, July 14-August 19 brings musicians from the world's stages to perform six weeks of intimate concerts. In addition, there is the Thirsty Ear roots music festival, the Santa Fe Bluegrass & Old Time Music Festival, the New Mexico Jazz Festival, the wildly popular Santa Fe Bandstand music series, live Metropolitan Opera performances in HD at the Lensic Performing Arts Center and endless music at Santa Fe's many night spots.

Get Outside Santa Fe: Set at 7,000 feet elevation at the base of the Rocky Mountains with more than 300 days of annual sunshine and surrounded by public lands, Santa Fe is an outdoors town. The city is the perfect stepping off point for adventure of every kind, from alpine and Nordic skiing in the winter to white water rafting in the spring and summer to year 'round hiking, cycling, mountain biking and exploring. Rated as having the cleanest air in the country by the American Lung Association and heralded as having the bluest skies by everyone else, Santa Fe can thrill during the day and pamper at night.

Tying the Knot: Literally hundreds of couples get married in Santa Fe every year; in outdoor mountain ceremonies, at one of the city's many special churches, in art-filled estates and on the lawns of historic homes. The city is well prepared for anyone's big day not only with charming venues but everything else a wedding party needs, from hair dressers and caterers to photographers and officiates. Santa Fe's beautiful setting and Old World appeal plus its many specialty service providers make it an especially popular spot for getting hitched, renewing vows or a honeymoon trip.

Not Your Usual Shopping: There is no end to the shopping in Santa Fe. The city's many small boutique stores of every kind, its unusual museum shops, the wide variety of high-end and Western consignment stores and the rich choices at Santa Fe's one of a kind art markets make it a shopping destination unlike any other. There are very few chain stores so forget the same old mall merchandise. Rather there are handcrafted folk art pieces from around the world at the Santa Fe International Folk Art Market, Native American craft sold by the artists themselves during a daily artisans market and the hundreds of entrepreneurially driven shops run by individuals with their own vision of beauty and value. Being a compact city makes it easy to walk from one desirable shopping district to the next with plenty of places to pause and refresh along the way.