The Alamo Mission, commonly called the Alamo and originally known as the Mission San Antonio de Valero, is an historic Spanish mission and fortress compound founded in the 18th century by Roman Catholic missionaries in what is now San Antonio, Texas,
The San Antonio Missions National Historical Park is a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in San Antonio, Texas. It consists of four Spanish colonial missions that played a significant role in the history and culture of the region. These missions formed part of a colonization system that stretched across the Spanish Southwest in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries.