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Cathedral of San Fernando
San Antonio TX
~0.05 miles from San Antonio city center
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The Cathedral of San Fernando is a cathedral of the Roman Catholic Church located in San Antonio, Texas, in the United States. It is the mother church of the Archdiocese of San Antonio and the seat of its archbishop. The cathedral is also known as the Church of Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria y Guadalupe and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is notable as the oldest cathedral in the United States.
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Downtown Riverwalk (Neighborhood)
San Antonio TX
~0.11 miles from San Antonio city center
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Ernie Pyle once descried the River Walk as "The American Venice" and it's easy to see why. This romantic, relaxing area of Downtown San Antonio is host to millions of visitors each year and continues to grow in popularity.
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Spanish Governor's Palace
105 Plaza De Armas San Antonio TX - 210-224-0601
~0.11 miles from San Antonio city center
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The Spanish Governor's Palace is a National Historic Landmark in the city of San Antonio, Texas. Built in the first half of the eighteenth century, it was originally intended to protect the nearby San Antonio de Valero Mission (the Alamo) and the growing colony. It is considered the sole remaining example of an aristocratic early Spanish house in Texas. The National Geographic Society has called the landmark "the most beautiful building in San Antonio."The building was constructed in the early eighteenth century, possibly as early as 1722. The keystone above the front entrance is marked with the coat-of-arms of Spanish King Ferdinand VI along with the date 1749. The building was actually the residence and working offices of the local presidio captain, and not the palace for the region'...
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Ripley's Haunted Adventure
329 Alamo Plaza San Antonio TX - 210-226-2828
~0.14 miles from San Antonio city center
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329 Alamo PlzSan Antonio, TX 78205210-226-2828
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Aztec on the River (Aztec Theater)
San Antonio TX
~0.14 miles from San Antonio city center
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San Antonio Majestic Theater
San Antonio TX
~0.19 miles from San Antonio city center
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The Majestic Theatre is San Antonio's oldest and largest atmospheric theatre. In 1975, the theatre was listed on the National Register of Historical Places and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1993. The theatre has been home to the San Antonio Symphony since 1989.The theatre seats 2311 people and was designed by architect John Eberson for Karl Hoblitzelle's Interstate Theatres in 1929. For many years it remained the largest theatre in Texas and the second largest movie theatre in the United States. It was also the first theatre in the state to be totally air-conditioned.
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Casa Navarro State Historic Park
228 S Laredo St San Antonio TX - 210-226-4801
~0.22 miles from San Antonio city center
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The Casa Navarro State Historic Site is nestled in downtown San Antonio.The Casa Navarro State Historic Site is nestled in downtown San Antonio. The half-acre site is the restored home of Tejano patriot José Antonio Navarro (1795–1871). Today, visitors can tour Navarro's adobe home furnished with period antiques, read copies of his writing, and discuss questions of history with informed interpreters.The original house complex consisted of three limestone, caliche block, and adobe structures, built about 1848. Casa Navarro is the only historic site in San Antonio dedicated to the interpretation of the Mexican history and heritage of Texas, as seen through the life of Navarro, a prominent San Antonio merchant, rancher and statesman. Navarro served as a member of the Texas legislature...
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Buckhorn Saloon and Museum
San Antonio TX
~0.29 miles from San Antonio city center
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Winner of the 2002 "Best Attraction" award from the Downtown Alliance, the Buckhorn Saloon and Museum is sure to delight and amaze people of all ages. At the Buckhorn, we believe in "edutainment"...the whole family can learn while you're having fun. Get up close to the exhibits in our halls where interactive displays make the experience come alive.Belly up to the bar in our old-fashioned saloon-turned-café, and browse our Curio Store, "The Worlds Oddest Store". The world famous Buckhorn Saloon and Museum has delighted hundreds of thousands of visitors for over 120 years. Come visit this San Antonio classic and discover a whole new Wild West experience...Texas Style!
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San Antonio Children's Museum
San Antonio TX
~0.29 miles from San Antonio city center
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Whether they are encasing themselves in a giant bubble, making beautiful artwork from discarded fabric and paper materials, or driving a child-size front-end loader, kids of all ages can easily spend an entire day at this museum. There are more than 80 special hands-on exhibits, a giant aquarium and even a kid-powered elevator. Housed in a 1940s-era building built as a dime store, the museum's multi-sensory exhibits focus on communication, the arts, economics, natural history, physical science, history and much more. Children age 2 and younger are admitted for free. Visitors receive one hour free parking at nearby Mid-City Parking Garage, as space is available.
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River Walk Assn
454 Soledad St San Antonio TX - 210-227-4262
~0.30 miles from San Antonio city center
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The San Antonio River Walk is a public park open 365 days a year, lined with individual businesses composed of restaurants, hotel, attractions and more. For information regarding individual business please visit the member listings and/or website.
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La Villita
San Antonio TX
~0.35 miles from San Antonio city center
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Original "Heart of San Antonio,". One square block in the heart of downtown, alive with artists and craftsmen, shops and restaurants.
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Torch of Friendship Sculpture
San Antonio TX
~0.39 miles from San Antonio city center
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La Antorcha de la Amistad (The Torch of Friendship) is a monumental abstract sculpture that stands in downtown San Antonio, Texas, United States of America. The artist of the sculpture is world-renowned Mexican sculptor, Sebastián, and was commissioned by the Asociación de Empresarios Mexicanos (Association of Mexican Businesspeople). The sculpture was presented as a gift from the Mexican government to the City of San Antonio in 2002. It was unveiled on June 28, 2002 by the artist, Mayor Edward D. Garza, and then-Mexican Secretary of Foreign Affairs and political analyst Jorge Castañeda Gutman.The sculpture stands at nearly 20 meters (65 feet), and weighs more than 40,800 kilograms (45 tons). The medium is enameled iron. It is located in the middle of a traffic rotary in downtown San A...
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Riverwalk San Antonio
San Antonio TX
~0.39 miles from San Antonio city center
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The San Antonio River Walk (also known as Paseo del Río) is a network of walkways along the banks of the San Antonio River, one story beneath downtown San Antonio, Texas. Lined by bars, shops and restaurants, the River Walk is an important part of the city's urban fabric and a tourist attraction in its own right.Today, the River Walk is an enormously successful special-case pedestrian street, one level down from the automobile street. The River Walk winds and loops under bridges as two parallel sidewalks lined with restaurants and shops, connecting the major tourist draws from the Alamo to Rivercenter mall, to the Arneson River Theatre close to La Villita, to HemisFair Park, to the Tower Life Building, to the San Antonio Museum of Art, and the Pearl Brewery. During the annual springtime ...
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Texas Adventure
San Antonio TX
~0.41 miles from San Antonio city center
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History meets high-tech in this small-scale adventure park. A multimedia show, which includes holograms, dramatizes the events leading up to the battle of the Alamo. State-of-the-art special effects make you feel as though you were there. Be sure to sit in the center, about four rows up, for an intimate experience with one of the effects. And no, it's not scary. A retail store in the lobby sells souvenirs and a small concession booth vends a variety of snacks, none of which are allowed in the theater.
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Plaza Wax Museum and Ripley's Believe It or Not
San Antonio TX
~0.41 miles from San Antonio city center
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Believe it or not you're about to see some pretty crazy things…at the Ripley's Believe It or Not! Museum in San Antonio, Texas! From oddities from primitive cultures to modern day curiosities, guests will go from display to display with their jaws dropped and their eyes wondering with disbelief! Take a look at ancient African fertility statues, an Indian shrunken head, and a unique cobweb painting. Along with each exhibit, you'll find fascinating information and facts that will further illuminate your understanding of the strangeness of science, life, and culture. Don't miss the Haunted House Adventure. You can even plan a birthday party at Ripley's or plan a Lock-in – a chilling and fun experience! Another highlight at the Ripley's Believe It or Not! Museum is the Odditorium, perh...
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Guinness World Records Museum
San Antonio TX
~0.41 miles from San Antonio city center
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Guinness World Records, known until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records (and in previous U.S. editions as The Guinness Book of World Records), is a reference book published annually, containing a collection of world records, both human achievements and the extremes of the natural world. The book itself holds a world record, as the best-selling copyrighted series of all-time. It is also one of the most stolen books from public libraries in the United States.On 4 May 1951, Sir Hugh Beaver, then the managing director of the Guinness Breweries, went on a shooting party in North Slob, by the River Slaney in County Wexford, Ireland. He became involved in an argument over which was the fastest game bird in Europe, the koshin golden plover or the grouse. That evening at Castlebridge House he ...
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Southwest School of Art
San Antonio TX - 2102241848
~0.42 miles from San Antonio city center
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San Antonio Central Library
San Antonio TX
~0.44 miles from San Antonio city center
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The San Antonio Public Library is a collection of a Central Library and 24 branch libraries (as of the fall of 2008) that serve the City of San Antonio, Texas, USA. The library serves other cities in the area, including Alamo Heights, Hill Country Village, and Olmos Park.The Central Library is a 240,000-square-foot (22,000 m2), six-story structure that opened in 1995 in Downtown San Antonio. The building is located in downtown San Antonio and is easily recognized by its bright-colored, striking Mexican Modernist design. The primary color of the building's exterior is "Enchilada Red."The architect for the building was selected by a design competition held by the city in July 1991. The winning design is by renowned Mexican architect Ricardo Legorreta in partnership with Sprinkle Robey Ar...
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The Alamo
San Antonio TX
~0.44 miles from San Antonio city center
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The Battle of the Alamo (February 23 – March 6, 1836) was a pivotal event in the Texas Revolution. Following a 13-day siege, Mexican troops under President General Antonio López de Santa Anna launched an assault on the Alamo Mission near San Antonio de Béxar (modern-day San Antonio, Texas). All but two of the Texian defenders were killed. Santa Anna's perceived cruelty during the battle inspired many Texians—both Texas settlers and adventurers from the United States—to join the Texian Army. Buoyed by a desire for revenge, the Texians defeated the Mexican Army at the Battle of San Jacinto, on April 21, 1836, ending the revolution.Several months previously, Texians had driven all Mexican troops out of Mexican Texas. Approximately 100 Texians were then garrisoned at the Alamo. The Texian fo...
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Instituto de México
San Antonio TX
~0.46 miles from San Antonio city center
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San Antonio Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center
San Antonio TX
~0.46 miles from San Antonio city center
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The Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center is located in downtown San Antonio, Texas. The Convention Center offers a variety of banquet halls and meeting rooms perfect for any occasion.The Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center is located in downtown San Antonio along the banks of the San Antonio River Walk.The facility is the central component of the city’s successful convention industry. The center, named for the late U.S. congressman Henry B. Gonzalez, hosts more than 300 events each year with over 750,000 convention delegates from around the world.The original convention center was built as part of HemisFair '68 by a joint venture of two general contractors Darragh & Lyda Inc. of San Antonio, Texas and H. A. Lott Inc. of Houston, Texas , but has been significantly altered and expande...
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Magik Theater
San Antonio TX
~0.47 miles from San Antonio city center
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Traveler Description: San Antonio's family professional theater that offers live performances of famous fairy tales.Attraction type: TheaterAddress: Beethoven Hall 420 S. Alamo, HemisFair ParkSan Antonio, TXTel: 210-227-2751
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San Antonio Cavalry Museum
San Antonio TX
~0.48 miles from San Antonio city center
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San Antonio Cavalry Museum 717 East Houston St, San Antonio, TX (210) 224-1865The San Antonio Cavalry Museum features cavalry artifacts and exhibits and is frequented by local re-enactors.Website: http://www.savc.org
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HemisFair Arena
San Antonio TX
~0.52 miles from San Antonio city center
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The HemisFair Arena was an indoor arena located in San Antonio, Texas, United States. It was home to the National Basketball Association's San Antonio Spurs from 1973 to 1993 and the San Antonio Force of the Arena Football League during the 1992 season, their only year of existence. The Houston Rockets also played home games at the arena during the 1972-73 NBA season.
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Rivercenter Mall
San Antonio TX
~0.61 miles from San Antonio city center
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Rivercenter is a shopping mall located in downtown San Antonio, Texas along the River Walk. It is anchored by Macy's, as well as a 38-story, 1,001-room Marriott hotel. The mall was purchased in 2005 by Ashkenazy Acquisition Corporation.Rivercenter opened in 1988 with San Antonio's first Lord & Taylor department store, an IMAX theater, as well as Dillard's(Closed August 2008) . Part of the downtown redevelopment included an extension of San Antonio's famed River Walk into the Rivercenter lagoon.Lord & Taylor, then owned by May Department Stores, was converted into a Foley's in 1989. In 2006, the space became Macy's after Macy's parent, Federated Department Stores, bought May Department Stores. The structure that houses Dillard's, an AMC Theatres, as well as other shops originally op...
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Market Square
San Antonio TX
~0.63 miles from San Antonio city center
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Market Square is a traditional and historic shopping district in San Antonio, Texas.The shopping district is the largest mexican shopping center in the San Antonio area.Market Square is called El Mercado by the locals. It is also where some festivals and exhibits are hosted.
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Tower of the Americas
San Antonio TX
~0.67 miles from San Antonio city center
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Tower of the Americas is a 750-foot observation tower/restaurant in San Antonio, Texas. The tower was designed by San Antonio architect O'Neil Ford and was built as the theme structure of the 1968 World's Fair, HemisFair '68.The tower was the tallest observation tower in the United States from 1968 until 1996, when the Las Vegas Stratosphere Tower was completed.The tower is located in the middle of HemisFair Park and has an observation deck that is accessible by elevator for a fee. In addition, there is also a lounge and revolving restaurant at the top of the tower that provides panoramic views of the city.
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Mexican Cultural Institute
600 Hemisfair Plaza Way San Antonio TX - 210-227-5018
~0.75 miles from San Antonio city center
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Museum featuring art and artifacts about Mexican culture and history.Address: 600 HemisFair Plaza Way HemisFair Park San Antonio, TXTel: 210/227-0123
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Hemisfair Park
San Antonio TX
~0.77 miles from San Antonio city center
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In honor of its 250th birthday, San Antonio hosted the 1968 HemisFair. It was the first world's fair held in the southwestern United States and welcomed over thirty different nations.
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Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center Visual Arts Gallery
325 S Salado St San Antonio TX - 210-271-0379
~0.78 miles from San Antonio city center
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The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center in San Antonio is an emblem of the political changes brought about by the civil rights movement of the 1960s. It was a Voting Rights Act decision that transformed the San Antonio City Council to single-member districts so that a substantial number of Latinas and Latinos and African Americans were elected, forcing a redistribution of arts money and redefining the cultural matrix of San Antonio. The flagship of that change was the Guadalupe Cultural Center.Initially, arts monies were awarded to the Performance Arts Nucleus (PAN), a visual and performing arts organization founded in 1979, a predecessor to the Guadalupe Center. Among the board members of this consortium were David González, Rodolfo García, the musician Juan Tejeda, Darío Aguilar, and the ...
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