A bird takes flight from a cross at Mission San Juan, Tuesday, June 30, 2015, in San Antonio. Mission San Juan is one of five 18th-century missions in San Antonio, including the Alamo, that may ...

A trip to San Antonio isn’t complete unless you sample its Tex-Mex along the Riverwalk and visit at least one of the missions ...

Mission San Juan is one of five 18th-century missions in San Antonio, including the Alamo, that may soon have the World Heritage Site recognition. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) Eric Gay / AP.

The town needed a layout that could accommodate an explosion of people, like that of 1773, when East Texas' many missions were closed and the populations within were relocated to San Antonio.

Mission Trail // Completed in October 2013, this eight-mile extension of San Antonio’s River Walk links the city’s four southernmost historic missions.Set aside at least two to four hours to ...

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 ...

A drawing of the Alamo Mission in San Antonio, first printed in 1854. Wikimedia Commons. But the mission, cursed with natural disasters and construction mishaps, never made it to that exalted status.

The Alamo is in the heart of downtown San Antonio, just a block from the city’s famed River Walk, a 15-mile urban waterway, stretches of which are lined with restaurants, bars and shops. More in ...

Following a 13-day siege, Mexican troops under President General Antonio López de Santa Anna launched an assault on the Alamo Mission near San Antonio de Béxar (modern-day San Antonio), Texas ...

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 ...

Alamo Plaza in San Antonio is showing signs of the future of the $550 million renovation and restoration of the beloved Texas shrine. Among the new additions is the Palisade outdoor exhibit ...