Mission San Juan Capistrano
Mission San Juan Capistrano was founded in 1731 by Spanish Catholics of the Franciscan Order, on the eastern banks of the San Antonio River in present-day San Antonio, Texas.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Park
- Description: historic place in San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas
- Also known as: “41BX5” and “Mission San Juan de Capistrano”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Stinson Municipal Airport and Mission San Francisco de la Espada.
Stinson Municipal Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: USGS, Public domain.
Stinson Municipal Airport is seven miles south of downtown San Antonio in Bexar County, Texas. The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 categorized it as a reliever airport.
Mission San Francisco de la Espada
Church
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Mission San Francisco de la Espada is a Roman Rite Catholic mission established in 1690 by Spain and relocated in 1731 to present-day San Antonio, Texas, in what was then known as northern New Spain.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Brooks City-Base.
Brooks City-Base
Neighborhood
Brooks is a mixed-use development that was founded on the former Brooks Air Force Base when the United States Air Force closed the facility in 2002. Following the 1995 BRAC, when Brooks AFB was removed from the Base Realignment and Closure list, city, state…
Mission San Juan Capistrano
- Categories: mission station and building
- Location: Bexar, Texas, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Spanish—“Mission San Juan Capistrano” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Mission San Juan de Capistrano”
- Chinese: “聖胡安·卡皮斯特拉諾傳教站”
- Dutch: “Mission San Juan Capistrano”
- French: “mission San Juan Capistrano”
- French: “Mission San Juan Capistrano”
- Persian: “میسیون سان خوان”
- Persian: “میسیون سن خوان”
- Portuguese: “Missão San Juan Capistrano”
- Spanish: “Misión de San Juan Capistrano”
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