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 ...

The series of five Spanish missions — San Antonio de Valero, Concepción, San Jose, San Juan, and Espada — arrayed along the banks of the San Antonio River in central and southern San Antonio ...

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. “ ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nearly 200 of these Texians (as both Anglo and Hispanic rebels were known) occupied the ruins of Mission San Antonio de Valero, nicknamed “the Alamo” after the Spanish word for cottonwood.

Founded in 1718 by Spanish missionaries and originally called Mission San Antonio de Valero, the Alamo became ... be entombed in a marble coffin at the entrance to San Antonio’s oldest church ...

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 ...

The San Antonio Missions are also an example of the interweaving of Spanish and Coahuiltecan ... Missions Espada, San Juan and the Rancho de las Cabras illustrate a very high degree of authenticity in ...