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 ...

You’ve likely remembered to visit the Alamo—i.e., what’s left of the once sprawling Mission San Antonio de Valero. But perhaps in your haste to wield a selfie stick in the vendor-clogged ...

The Alamo was originally established in 1718 as Mission San Antonio de Valero, founded as a Spanish foothold to convert Indigenous people to Catholicism. It's best known as the site of the 1836 ...

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 ...

My visit to the Alamo — and four other historic Spanish colonial missions along the San Antonio River — was the most memorable part of a recent four-day trip to this city of about 1.5 million ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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.