The Alamo is unquestionably the most famous of the five Spanish missions that make up the San Antonio Missions World Heritage Site. Though the Alamo fell in battle against the Mexicans in 1836 ...

A trip to San ... Antonio Missions National Historical Park, though they are not located within the park’s boundaries. The ...

Coahuiltecan Indians weave on the looms or hammer away in the smithy—an ordinary day at one of the San Antonio ... several missions in Texas. Dwellings at San Jose Photo: Ana Astri-O’Reilly ...

You’ve likely remembered to visit the Alamo—i.e., what’s left of the once sprawling Mission San Antonio de Valero. But perhaps in your haste to wield a selfie stick in the vendor-clogged ...

Several of San Antonio’s missions were first established elsewhere (the Alamo, which was originally known as San Francisco Solano and later renamed San Antonio de Valero, was relocated from ...

This September, NPCA, the City of San Antonio and community partners will again be celebrating the San Antonio Missions National Historical Park ... maintain and promote the park and is an excellent ...

and historical treasures are surely the San Antonio Missions. The series of five Spanish missions — San Antonio de Valero, Concepción, San Jose, San Juan, and Espada — arrayed along the banks ...

Two weathered gravestones sit in a small, dusty rectangle in front of the grand Spanish church at the heart of the nation’s newest UNESCO World Heritage Site, the San Antonio Missions.

The site encompasses a group of five frontier mission complexes situated along a stretch of the San Antonio River basin in southern Texas, as well as a ranch located 37 kilometres to the south. It ...