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Here’s how to see the best San Antonio Missions to visit if you have an hour, or want to take all day. The Alamo Mission San ...
if the Alamo Cenotaph Monument, controversial even when it was raised in 1936, is moved a few yards away? The latest addition to the complex on the final site of Mission San Antonio de Valero is a ...
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 ...
If there's one thing San Antonio is known for, it's the Alamo. Once a Franciscan mission, it was here that 189 Texans fought and lost their lives in 1836 during a 13-day siege by Mexican ruler ...
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 in the San Antonio area in the early eighteenth century.
to inspiring local and regional businesses (Alamo Beer Company), the Alamo Mission is synonymous with San Antonio. So much of the relationship between the South-Central Texas city and the Alamo ...
Alamo Plaza in San Antonio is showing signs of the future ... Opened last year next to the Palisade, the Mission Gate exhibit greets visitors at what would have been the southern gate in 1836.
A discovery has confirmed the exact quarry that provided the limestone to build the Alamo, which solves a mystery about the origins of the historical mission. During excavation for San Antonio Zoo ...
SAN ANTONIO — The Alamo is undoubtedly the most recognizable ... “The Alamo was the only mission church that was not restored as a church of worship," said Father Kevin Shanahan.