Travel Guide Jerome

Founded in 1879, the town was named after a New York lawyer who was none other than Winston Churchill's cousin. After being built on a site already known to the Native Americans for its copper, the mines closed in 1953 and Jerome was emptied of its inhabitants. In the 1960s, it began to attract artists from all over the United States, and then other curious people after it became a National Historic Landmark in 1976. As such, it's hard to call it a ghost town, but it's definitely worth a visit. Because Jerome is still a very pretty little town clinging to the side of the mountain, whose old charm of wooden or brick houses - some on stilts - is undeniable. An ideal spot to watch the sun go down... All the more so as it is at nightfall that the place takes on a certain otherworldly je ne sais quoi, especially when one moves away from the center and its stores.