Tucson travel guide
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Tucson is in the Sonoran, the only desert where the saguaro grows, and the national park keeps forests of them either side of the city — at their best in the last hour of light.
Mission San Xavier del Bac, finished in 1797 and white as chalk, stands on the reservation south of town. The city was the first in the United States named a UNESCO city of gastronomy, on the strength of food traditions four thousand years deep.
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Pima Air & Space Museum
Nearly four hundred aircraft on thirty-two hectares beside Davis-Monthan air force base — one of the largest aviation collections anywhere, including a Blackbird and a presidential Kennedy aircraft. Bus tours run into the adjacent boneyard where several thousand aircraft are stored.
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Mission San Xavier del Bac
A Spanish mission church of 1797 on the Tohono O'odham reservation, sixteen kilometres south of Tucson, whitewashed and known as the White Dove of the Desert. Its painted and carved interior is the most complete example of Mexican baroque anywhere in the United States.
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