Visit the First Southern California Mission- Mission San Diego De Alcala !Mission San Diego De Alcala is a really interesting old mission that has been well preserved and restored. It is the first of the 21 missions and known as the Mother of the Missions. It is really cool to walk around and see how the Native Americans and padres lived. You can see a building where they slept, the church, where they farmed, and their artifacts in the museum. You can even attend church there on Sunday because it is an active Catholic Parish in the Diocese of San Diego. Every year they have a carnival called the Festival of the Bells. Interesting facts: The mission was founded on July 16, 1769 by Blessed Junipero Serra. It was designated as a Minor Basilica in 1976 by Pope Paul VI. Mission San Diego is sometimes referred to as the Plymouth Rock of the West Coast. The first seeds of agriculture were planted at Mission San Diego, which laid the foundations for the great agricultural state that California is today. It was possible for historians to find out what crops were grown at each mission by studying the components of the adobe bricks. When homes were being built in Old Town, it was common practice to take materials from the abandoned mission to be used in constructing the homes. For more information and hours click on the link... You can also travel down El Camino Real which was the road used to connect all 21 missions in California from San Diego to San Francisco... You can also visit Mission San Luis Rey. It is the largest of the 21 missions. It has a museum, cemetery, church, and is on 56 acres of land.
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