it’s easy to see why the influence of the Spanish crown that established the complex 282 years ago extended no farther north. The earth underfoot is bone dry, parched by the brutal Texas sun. Mission ...

The mission has the distinction of being the last Spanish religious outpost established in Texas and the last one to be closed. In many ways, Mission Refugio was typical of the 26 Spanish missions ...

Ramón Vásquez, executive director of the American Indians in Texas at the Spanish Colonial Missions, said the mission frescoes, such as the “Eye of God” ceiling mural at Mission Concepción ...

After all, it is the most intact of the five surviving Spanish missions in San Antonio. Established as Mission Nuestra Señora de la Purísima Concepción de Acuña in East Texas and aimed for the ...

The written history on those ranches dates to the 19th century, but a large spread that was listed recently in South Texas by Republic Ranches, the Double Q Ranch in Goliad County, can claim not ...

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 ...

Five centuries-old Spanish missions in Texas newly declared as World Heritage Sites by a U.N. agency "have helped to shape the face of San Antonio," said Archbishop Gustavo Garcia-Siller.

After secularization in 1803, a Spanish cavalry unit, the Alamo Company, converted it into barracks and established the first ...

SAN ANTONIO —A U.N. agency named the Alamo and the four Spanish colonial Catholic missions in San Antonio as a World Heritage Site on Sunday. It’s the first place in Texas deemed to be of ...

Texas March 2, 2015. REUTERS/Lisa Maria Garza By Jim Forsyth SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - A U.N. agency named the Alamo and the four Spanish colonial Catholic missions in San Antonio as a World ...