To view this video, you need QuickTime 4 or greater. You can download it for free if you don't have it. The Gallup Film Festival is held here every year. Of particular interest is the new Gallup Cultural Center located in the historic restored railroad station on Route 66. A project of the Southwest Indian Foundation, the Center consists of the Ceremonial Gallery, the Storyteller Museum, a Visitor Center and the Kiva Cinema.
All attractions are free and open to the public.
Be sure to visit the Museum Shop and the El Navajo Cafe, featuring organic espresso drinks, homemade sandwiches, soups and breakfast burritos. Scientists and scholars place the founding of coma around 1150 AD, making it the oldest continuously inhabited settlement in the United States. Sky City rests on a rock mesatop 357 feet above the surrounding valley floor. Inaccessible except by steep footpath until modern times, coma is one of history's more ingenious fortified cities. The crown jewel of coma is San Esteban Del Rey Mission, with one of the most beautiful and architecturally creative Catholic mission interiors to be found in North America.