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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. “ ...

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 ...