San Antonio
San Antonio (Spanish for "Saint Anthony") is a city in the U.S. state of Texas, the third-largest metropolitan area in Texas. San Antonio is the 7th most populous city in the United States, and the 2nd most populous in the Southern United States and Texas, after Houston.
Mission Concepción
Franciscan Friars established Mission Nuestra Señora de la Purísima Concepción de Acuña (also Mission Concepción) in 1711. After its relocation most of the people in the mission were Pajalats who spoke a Coahuiltecan language. Catholic Mass is still held at the mission every Sunday.
We rode our rented bikes on the Mission trail stopping at the different missions and enjoying the river scenes.
We rode our rented bikes on the Mission trail stopping at the different missions and enjoying the river scenes.
Mission San José
Mission San José y San Miguel de Aguayo is an historic Catholic mission in San Antonio. The mission was named in part for the Marquis de San Miguel de Aguayo, José de Azlor y Virto de Vera.
Mission San Juan
Mission San Juan Capistrano (originally christened in 1716 as La Misión San José de los Nazonis and located in South Central Texas) was founded in 1731 by Spanish Catholics of the Franciscan Order, on the eastern banks of the San Antonio River in present-day San Antonio, Texas.
Mission Espada
Mission San Francisco de la Espada (also Mission Espada) is a Roman Rite Catholic mission established in 1690 by Spain and relocated in 1731 to present-day San Antonio, Texas, in what was then known as northern New Spain. The mission was built in order to convert local Native Americans to Christianity and solidify Spanish territorial claims in the New World against encroachment from France. Today, the structure is one of four missions that comprise San Antonio Missions National Historical Park.
Austin
Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of Texas. Incorporated on December 27, 1839, it is the 12th-most populous city in the United States. It has been one of the fastest growing large cities in the United States since 2010. Downtown Austin and Downtown San Antonio are approximately 80 miles (129 km) apart, and both fall along the I-35 corridor. Austin is the southernmost state capital in the contiguous United States.
