Santa Cruz
Spanish
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Santa Cruz |
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Bells at San Luis Obispo and San Gabriel |
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San Gabriel, and at right, San Luis Obispo |
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Only four of the original 21 California missions remain in Franciscan hands today: Santa Barbara, San Miguel, San Antonio, and San Luis Rey.
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San Miguel; a bench in the garden at San Juan Bautista, and San José. (Almost all of these pictures are thumbnails -- click to zoom) |
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Views inside San Luis Obispo and San Antonio:
smooth, cool walls decorated with painting. Those dark half-circles contain shallow vessels of holy water. |
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In some cases (San Rafael, Santa Cruz, and Soledad, for example) the current buildings are replicas, constructed on or near the original site (and the structure at Santa Cruz is actually a scaled down model of the original). |
| San Clemente is known as the Jewel of the Missions; Santa Barbara, the Queen. There's downtown thrift shops across the street from San Buenaventura... San Luis Obispo is also downtown, adjacent to the shady river. San Antonio (left) is inside a military reservation, and San Francisco de Asís (the "Mission Dolores") is the oldest building in the city. |
Santa Inés, or Ynez, the first mission I really noticed, just outside the faux-Skandinavian/Euro town of Solvang. For some reason, the mitten-shape of this paddle cactus section intrigued me. |
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Above, earthquake-damaged San Miguel. Right off the 101, so easy to visit; too bad about its closure. To the left, San Juan Bautista, the "Vertigo" mission. Across the square, the stables are just as they were in the film (as is the adjacent hotel, where Scotty's hearing was held). |
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| Inside San Juan Bautista (altar close-up), Santa Cruz, and San Luis Obispo | ||
South of Pasadena, el Camino's local name is Valley Blvd -- San Gabriel has this welcoming sign at the closest point. |
Concerning the Bells of el Camino Real |
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Driving along the 101 between LA and the Bay Area, they whip by every few miles. Some have the labeling sign, others are just out there. |
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I was raised Protestant, am unfamiliar with the Papist rituals;
but the Californian history interests me. Since I didn't move here
until way past graduation, I missed out on fourth grade, when the
kids learn California history -- some of their classes might use this
Mission
Game lesson plan, complete with board and cards.
If you'd like more information, visit these sites:
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Full names of the Alte Califorña missions, in
chronological order of establishment:
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