Plaza de Valero, a new space to meet up with friends ... a “premier community gathering space in the heart of downtown San Antonio.” In the weekly podcast, “Stories Bigger Than Texas ...

Mission de Valero was founded May 1, 1718, just four days before the presidio and village of San Antonio de Béjar were established about a half-mile southeast, in the area of today’s Main Plaza.

SAN ANTONIO — An archaeological dig seeking to confirm the site of San Antonio's first Spanish colonial mission could begin in the spring. Artifacts that might have come from the early 1700s ...

But it wasn’t there during the Battle of the Alamo. What has come to be known as the Alamo began its life as San Antonio de Valero, one of the five missions founded by Spanish Franciscan friars ...

since San Antonio's origins revolved around Mission San Antonio de Valero, the religious analog to the military Presidio San Antonio de Bexar, as well as the four other surviving Spanish missions ...

The Alamo, originally known as the Mission San Antonio de Valero, is more than 250 years old. The Monks' Burial Ground, a side room off the sanctuary, is cordoned off for the investigation.

A subsidiary of San Antonio-based Valero Energy Corp. (NYSE: VLO) — Valero Marketing and Supply de Mexico SA de CV — signed transportation and supply deals enabling the refining company to ...

Alamo officials on Thursday confirmed that limestone from a historic quarry that once existed at the zoo’s location was excavated for construction of the Mission San Antonio de Valero’s third ...

Along the creekside path, historical texts tell of the first human settlement going back thousands of years, of the Spanish founding of Mission San Antonio de Valero, of the first land grants ...