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El Camino Real de los Tejas routes in Spanish Texas. Alonso de León, Spanish governor of Coahuila, established the corridor for what became El Camino Real de Tierra Afuera in multiple expeditions to East Texas between 1686 and 1690 to find and destroy a French fort near Lavaca Bay, [2] established by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle on what de León considered to be Spanish lands.
The Majestic Theatre is San Antonio's oldest and largest atmospheric theatre. The theatre seats 2,264 people and was designed by architect John Eberson , for Karl Hoblitzelle 's Interstate Theatres in 1929.
The Alamo was operated by the Daughters of the Republic of Texas until July 2015, when custodianship was turned over to the Texas General Land Office. [ 3 ] On July 5, 2015, the San Antonio Missions National Historical Park, along with the Alamo Mission in San Antonio , was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site .
The Spanish Governor's Palace is a historic adobe from the Spanish Texas period located in Downtown San Antonio.. It is the last visible trace of the 18th-century colonial Presidio San Antonio de Béxar complex, and the only remaining example in Texas of an aristocratic 18th-century Spanish Colonial in−town residence. [4]
Spanish missions within the boundaries of what is now the U.S. state of Texas. The Spanish Missions in Texas comprise the many Catholic outposts established in New Spain by Dominican, Jesuit, and Franciscan orders to spread their doctrine among Native Americans and to give Spain a toehold in the frontier land.
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In the United States, from the Texas–New Mexico border to San Juan Pueblo north of Española, the original route (at one point designated U.S. Route 85 but later superseded with US Interstate Highways 10 and 25) has been designated a National Scenic Byway called El Camino Real.
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