San Antonio Missions a UNESCO World Heritage Site in San Antonio, Texas
The San Antonio Missions is so much more than the Alamo! The San Antonio Missions National Historical Park became a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2015. The area contains the largest collection of Spanish colonial missions in North America! The park contains five separate missions that are operated independently. These five missions are the Alamo (Mission San Antonio de Valero), Mission San Juan, Mission Espada, Mission San Jose and Mission Concepcion.
In this video we visit two Missions. Mission San Jose and Mission Concepcion.
In the 1700’s this area was considered new Spain and the spanish government sent priests to this area of Texas to settle and protect the territory. The priests brought indigenous people here and tried to create a spanish community and their ‘mission’ was to convert these people to Catholicism.
Mission San Jose is considered the Queen of the missions and this is where the Main Visitor Center is located. This mission was established in 1720. This is the largest mission in San Antonio. At it’s height it was a sanctuary and community for 300 Native Americans.
Mission Concepcion is located 3 miles of downtown and was constructed in 1755. This mission remains true to the original design and is the oldest unrestored stone church in the US & the best preserved Spanish colonial structure in the US.
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:33 Visitors Center
01:34 Mission San Jose
09:58 Transportation Options
12:18 Mission Concepcion
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