Mission San José in San Antonio fires the imagination about how the Spanish and Native Americans lived together in the mostly reconstructed courtyard. SAN ANTONIO − During a recent road trip to this ...

In 1767, Catholic Franciscan friar Junipero Serra was directed to create permanent settlements in an area of the New World called Alta California. Over the next 56 years, the Spanish established 21 ...

Ocala | In a sandy, overgrown expanse of countryside midway between Ocala and Gainesville lay clues to the early exploration and colonization of the New World. Not far from where a family of local ...

The missions—built between 1769 and 1823 and extending in a chain of 600 miles from Sonoma to San Diego—stand as symbols of California's Spanish colonial past. Pictured is San Miguel's bell tower.

OCALA - On a recent day, Willet Boyer stood high atop a dirt mound somewhere in the Ocala National Forest, land he once romped across as a child. He peered down at the ground below him, knowing that ...

In a sandy, overgrown expanse of countryside midway between Ocala and Gainesville lie clues to the early exploration and colonization of the New World. Not far from where a family of local ...

When Texans think of Spanish missions, they visualize San Antonio. There, five 18th-century missions, including the Alamo, have been lovingly preserved or partially reconstructed. Downriver in Goliad, ...

Carolina Ramirez and her son Lucas at Aventuras, an after school Spanish immersion program for elementary aged kids. Photo by Abraham Rodriguez. Once home to a jewelry and watch repair business, the ...