San Antonio, Texas. San Antonio is located in south central Texas about 200 miles southwest of Houston and 150 miles north of the Mexican border. It is renown for its beautiful River Walk and for the Alamo, a national historic site and a shrine to Texan independence. The city has a rich Hispanic culture and a large Tejano (Texan – Mexican) population that produces a distinctive community with the grandeur of an old Spanish colony. It is a popular tourist destination with many historic and cultural attractions and a wide selection of entertainments.
The Alamo and the River Walk are the main tourist attractions in San Antonio and the top two attractions in the entire state of Texas. The Alamo is a partially reconstructed Spanish Mission in the heart of the city and was the place where 189 Texas patriots died in 1836, while defending their land against a greatly superior Mexican army led by General Antonio López de Santa Anna. The defenders included the famous frontiersman Davy Crockett and colorful Texian knife fighter Jim Bowie. You can tour the small museum of historical artifacts located in the reconstructed chapel for free. The historic Battle of the Alamo is depicted at the San Antonio IMAX Theatre Rivercenter and at the Texas Adventure multimedia special effects theater within one block of Alamo Square.
San Antonio International Airport is located 13 miles north of downtown along route 281. Transportation to the downtown hotels is available via cab for about $15, via shuttle bus for $8 or via public transportation for less than one dollar. You can drive from San Antonio to Houston in about four hours along Interstate 10. You can drive to Corpus Christi, on the Gulf Coast, or to Laredo, on the Mexican border, in a little over two hours.
San Antonio Missions National Historical Park is located in the southern suburbs of San Antonio. It contains the remains of four Spanish Missions in various states of preservation. Mission San Jose is the best preserved with its entire compound reconstructed as it would have looked in colonial times. It enables you to see how the mission operated as a self-contained farming and manufacturing community with houses for hundreds of pacified Native American Indians.
As in most southern cities, San Antonio can become very hot during the summer months especially July and August. It can get cool in the winter but seldom very cold. The best times to visit are in Spring or Fall.
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