The hotel, four blocks from Santa Fe's historic plaza, has an indoor pool.

The Church of San Martin, on the historic plaza of the same name, is surrounded by an arcade with particularly fine carved capitals.

With the recent announcement that the United States has chosen a design for its new embassy in Berlin, one of Europe's most historic plazas moved a step closer to resurrection.

In a graphic sign of the growing conflicts shaking Turkish society, a large crowd packed one of Istanbul's historic plazas today to protest a military-backed plan to restrict religious education.

Scenes for the Alfred Hitchcock film Vertigo were filmed around the historic plaza, including the historic mission, of San Juan Bautista in the fall of 1957.

This summer, that deficiency will be corrected when a new museum dedicated to the artist opens downtown, just off the historic central plaza.

On Oct. 2, 10 days before the Games began, government troops opened fire on student protesters in the historic plaza in Tlatelolco in Mexico City.

The Plaza The historic plaza is the center of town, both on maps and in locals' minds.

Take your children to the historic plaza, by all means.

Hardly a week passes without a report of a purse snatching or a mugging on or near the city's historic plaza.