SAN JUAN BAUTISTA, Calif. — Wednesday marks the first day of winter, also known as the winter solstice, and the longest night of the year. In San Juan Bautista, a celebration will be held at ...

They include Mission San Juan Bautista, built between 1803 and 1812; the Plaza Hotel, built in 1858 but incorporating as its ground floor former Spanish military barracks dating from 1813-14; the ...

San Juan Bautista was known as the "mother mission" and was the way many explorers, soldiers and clergy first came into our area in the 1700s.

During a Mass of Reconciliation at Mission San Juan Bautista in December 2012, Bishop Richard Garcia asked for forgiveness for the sins committed against Native Americans in California.

San Juan Bautista was founded as a mission in 1797, the largest mission out of 21 founded by Franciscans in Alta California between 1768 and 1853.

The rustic town of San Juan Bautista and its historic Spanish mission, which dates back to 1797 and gained international fame in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958 film “Vertigo,” is flanked by rolling ...

The fifteenth in a chain of 21 California missions founded by Father Junipero Serra, San Juan Bautista’s mission is the largest and longest continuously operating.

Luis Solis, portraying Jesus, carries the cross down the street during San Juan Bautista Catholic Church's annual procession marking the stations of the cross in Lancaster city, Friday April 15, 2022.

California mission San Juan Bautista has a history of music programs and was used for filming Alfred Hitchcock's 'Vertigo.' ...

From as far south as Mission San Juan Batista where Madeleine Elster - and her stand-in - plunged to their deaths in "Vertigo" to as far north as Bodega Bay ("The Birds") and Santa Rosa ("Shadow ...

Participants from San Juan Bautista Catholic Church re-enact Way of the Cross on South Ann Street, Friday, April 7, 2023. The annual Good Friday procession moved throughout streets of southeast ...

SAN JUAN BAUTISTA, Calif. — Wednesday marks the first day of winter, also known as the winter solstice, and the longest night of the year. Early in the morning, people arrived at Mission San ...