Sojourn through the Past and Present

Step off a plane at the San Antonio airport and you’re met by a quartet of cultures—Anglo, Mexican, Spanish and German. To experience the West in San Antonio is to see it from a Southwest and Tex-Mex perspective. Founded in 1719 as a military, civil and religious outpost, San Antonio became a way station on the trail between the Rio Grande and the East Texas missions. By 1960, the city had become one of the nation’s 10 largest. The best way to grasp the city’s cultural heritage is t