Santa Fe: a palace, a revolt, a trail's end and a stairway of legend

Santa Fe has been a capital for some four centuries, longer than any other city in the United States, and its earth-coloured streets hide stories that even people who live there rarely hear. This quiz invites you to test what you know in 20 questions with pictures.

Which saint does the city's full Spanish name honour, and where was the capital before it? What happened in the long palace on the Plaza in the summer of 1680, how did the leaders of the revolt coordinate dozens of villages, and why do historians hesitate to call the Spanish comeback «bloodless»? What changed for the villages that had risen, and in which language is the old neighbourhood across the river named?

Why could Missouri traders suddenly sell their goods here in 1821, and what put an end to the wagon caravans? What did American soldiers find in the town's arsenal in 1846, why did a Confederate army leave in a hurry in 1862, and what did a grand fair of 1883 claim about the city's age? Is the famous «Oldest House» really that old?

Which best-selling novel was finished in the governor's study, which book turned an archbishop from the Auvergne into a fictional hero, and how do you build a big stone church where another one already stands? Who really built the staircase the nuns called a miracle, what style shaped the city's look in the 1920s, what does a giant burning puppet stand for, and what was handed out at a quiet office off the Plaza in 1943? The pictures are old photographs, photochroms, engravings, maps and paintings in the public domain.