Mission San Juan

Mission San Juan is a historic mission located in San Antonio, Texas. The mission was originally founded in 1716 in eastern Texas and was relocated to its present location in 1731. It features a church, a granary, and other ancillary structures, including a convent and Indian quarters. The mission was a self-sustaining community where indigenous artisans produced iron tools, cloth, and prepared hides. The mission also had orchards and gardens outside the walls, which provided melons, peaches, and pumpkins. Visitors can explore the mission grounds, visit the church and park museum, and walk the Yanaguana Trail, a paved 1/4 of a mile loop trail that takes you to an original stretch of the San Antonio River. The mission is part of the World Heritage Site and offers a living demonstration farm, which shows visitors what the labores surrounding the mission would have looked like. The farm is fed by a historic acequia, an irrigation ditch that still carries water from the San Antonio River to the mission fields