SAN ANTONIO − During a recent road trip to this beguiling Texas city, I spent a considerable amount of time in churches. Most were Catholic churches, of course, since San Antonio's origins ...

Plaza de Valero ... was a communal space long after the Mission San Antonio de Valero was established there in 1724 as the first permanent Spanish-Indigenous mission along the San Antonio River. “ ...

Two weathered gravestones sit in a small, dusty rectangle in front of the grand Spanish church at ... the fifth, Mission San Antonio de Valero, went on to become a military garrison - the Alamo ...

Many people come to San Antonio thinking they’re standing “in front ... mission and battle site. It was the main living area for Indigenous inhabitants of the Mission San Antonio de Valero ...

one of the chain of Spanish colonial missions here that began with the establishment in 1718 of the first Mission San Antonio de Valero. The DAR worked fast: A photograph of the wrought-iron ...

The San Antonio Missions play a key role in telling the story of Spanish colonialists and Native Americans of the Southwest. The park preserves the largest intact concentration of Spanish Colonial ...

The Alamo is unquestionably the most famous of the five Spanish missions that make up the ... originally called Misión San Antonio de Valero, continues to inspire millions of visitors each ...

Two weathered gravestones sit in a small, dusty rectangle in front of the grand Spanish church at ... the fifth, Mission San Antonio de Valero, went on to become a military garrison — the ...

I am standing in front ... San Fernando. The civic name was changed after Texas won its independence from Mexico in 1836. The actual Alamo mission was the “Mision San Antonio de Valero ...

SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS—Waterway features dating to the Spanish colonial period have ... Its irrigation waterways served the Mission San Antonio de Valero, which was moved further north after a ...

Reason: These five 18th-century Franciscan missions—Missions San José, San Juan, Espada, Concepción, and Valero (the Alamo)—are an uncommonly well-preserved collection of Spanish colonial ...