the tourists say. The reason, of course, is that San Antonio has grown up around the Alamo. City streets and an abandoned post office encroach on the ancient mission’s boundaries. The Alamo is a ...

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 ...

SAN ANTONIO, Texas — It took just 90 minutes for history to be made on March 6, 1836, when the Mexican army of Gen. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna set out to reclaim the Alamo Mission in a bid to ...

including Mission San Antonio de Valero (the Alamo). Together they are the most complete and intact group of Spanish Colonial mission complexes in the world, according to its website. The center ...

Aside from the Alamo, this is where all of San Antonio's historic missions – Mission San José, Mission Concepción, Mission Espada and Mission San Juan – are located, making this a must-see ...

(Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP) FILE - Alamo Drafthouse Cinema is pictured on Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023, in New York. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP, FIle) (Andy Kropa) SAN ANTONIO – Alamo ...

Historical drama detailing the 1835-36 Texas revolution before, during, and after the famous siege of the Alamo (February ... in an abandoned mission outside San Antonio by a Mexican army of ...

Continue reading First built in 1718 and the most famous of the San Antonio missions, The Alamo (also known as San Antonio de Valera) began as a way station between the trail of missions.