California’s missions are some of the oldest landmarks that hold stories from the state’s early days. These sites give you a ...

The missions—built between 1769 and 1823 and extending in a chain of 600 miles from Sonoma to San Diego—stand as symbols of California's Spanish colonial past. Pictured is San Miguel's bell tower.

Nearly 30 years ago, Markus Bokisch illegally imported vine California from Spain and reignited a Spanish wine movement in ...

To the editor: I applaud and could not agree more with Valentin Lopez in his call for taking down the mission bells that line the so-called El Camino Real linking California’s Spanish missions. This ...

The California missions are some of the oldest structures in California. As a result, there are some pretty spooky tales surrounding them. There are more than 20 Spanish missions scattered throughout ...

A statue of Junipero Serra, the Franciscan priest who helped to establish the Spanish missions in California, was torn down by protesters in Sacramento’s Capitol Park on Saturday night after a day of ...

This September, California marks 175 years of statehood, but its story stretches far beyond 1850. Long before statehood, towns—and civilizations—flourished across the region. Indigenous peoples like ...

Few symbols in California are as ubiquitous as the roadside markers shaped like mission bells that flank state highways and the streets of coastal cities from San Diego to Sonoma along the so-called ...

A statue of a late Native American leader has been unveiled outside California’s state Capitol building, replacing a monument of a Spanish missionary that was toppled by protesters in 2020. The ...

The Camino de California reconnects Catholics with the land, saints and communities that shaped the Church in the West. Mission Basilica San Diego de Alcalá in San Diego, California, is a stopping ...

If you attended public elementary school in California, you probably remember a popular fourth grade social studies assignment: build a model of a California mission, using popsicle sticks, sugar ...