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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 24 February 2025. 18th to 19th-century Catholic religious outposts in California For the establishments in modern-day Mexico, see Spanish missions in Baja California. The locations of the 21 Franciscan missions in Alta California. Part of a series on Spanish missions in the Americas of the Catholic ...
Today a growing number of people, calling themselves California Mission Walkers, hike the mission trail route, usually in segments between the missions. [5] Walking the trail is a way to connect with the history of the missions.
Mission San Fernando Rey de España is a Spanish mission in the Mission Hills community of Los Angeles, California. The mission was founded on 8 September 1797 at the site of Achooykomenga , and was the seventeenth of the twenty-one Spanish missions established in Alta California .
Today, La Purísima Mission is the only example in California of a complete mission complex. As of 2011 it was considered to be the most completely restored Spanish mission in California. [20] Ten of the original buildings are fully restored and furnished, including the church, shops, quarters, and blacksmith shop.
Mission San Antonio de Padua is a Spanish mission established by the Franciscan order in present-day Monterey County, California, near the present-day town of Jolon.Founded on July 14, 1771, it was the third mission founded in Alta California by Father Presidente Junípero Serra.
Pala Mission was part of the Spanish missions, asistencias, and estancias system in Las Californias—Alta California. Today it is located in the Pala Indian Reservation located in northern San Diego County , with the official name of Mission San Antonio de Pala .
As with the other California missions, Mission Santa Cruz served as a site for ecclesiastical conversion of natives, first the Amah Mutsun [Wikidata] people, [10] the original inhabitants of the region (called Costeño by the Spaniards, and later known as the "Ohlone").
El Camino Real (Spanish; literally The Royal Road, sometimes translated as The King's Highway) is a 600-mile (965-kilometer) commemorative route connecting the 21 Spanish missions in California (formerly the region Alta California in the Spanish Empire), along with a number of sub-missions, four presidios, and three pueblos.