Spanish missions were part of a widespread effort by Spain to colonize North America and convert Native Americans to Catholicism. The missions in Texas were also supposed to push back against ...

Visitors to the World Heritage Center will learn about the history of the Spanish Missions and the inhabitants of the land ...

Santa Clara University, the oldest college in California, is also the only college in the state to be the successor of a Spanish mission. The history of both institutions is intimately bound up with ...

Apolinaria Lorenzana provides a window to the Spanish Mission System while Mariano Vallejo personifies the era of the Californio rancheros an elite class who thrive after Mexico gains its ...

The San Antonio Missions play a key role in telling the story of Spanish colonialists and Native Americans of the Southwest. The park preserves the largest intact concentration of Spanish Colonial ...