Missions of Central California / Robert A. Bellezza.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bellezza, Robert A., Author.

Series:

Images of America.

Images of America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spanish mission buildings--California--History--Pictorial works.

Spanish mission buildings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (127 pages) : chiefly illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

Charleston, SC : Arcadia Pub., [2013]

Summary:

After the discovery of Alta California, the Spanish Crown charged the first Franciscan friars to enter into the New World through Lower Baja, with a succession of conquistadors, explorers, and soldiers, on a trail called El Camino Real or "The Royal Road." The settlement began in 1769 at Mission San Diego de Alcalá, a new port and military presidio with buildings of mud, brushwood, and tule grass. Fr. Junípero Serra, the legendary mission presidente and founding father of nine missions, traveled along a worn path lined today by symbolic bell markers leading to many remarkable, modern cities. After 1772, settlements were spread to California's central coast region, filling with native neophytes who became the residents and builders of all mission settlements. The Spanish missions had brought dramatic changes to California's landscape and forged the underpinnings of its earliest history, founded serendipitously with the American Revolution and birth of the United States.

Contents:

The Valley of Hungry Bears : Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa

Shores of Serenity : Mission San Buenaventura

The golden age of the missions : Mission Santa Bárbara, Virgen y Mártir

Utopian time and place : Mission La Purísima Concepción de María de Santísima

The middle way : Mission San Miguel, Arcángel

Hallowed ground : Mission Santa Inés, Virgin y Martíyr

California's missions past and present : touring El Camino Real.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 127).

OCLC:

885208582