 | | 2011-12-21 02:06
From blog Over 50 Feeling 40
La Villita: From Battlefield to Beauty
Today, dear blog readers, we will visit an area once San Antonio’s first neighborhood and the site where in 1836 General Santa Ana established a line of canons to fire upon the Alamo. La Villita has come a long way from the primitive huts which sat there in the early 1800s to a cozy,stone village now housing the city’s art community. Each small shop reveals treasures of paintings, sculpture, clothing, jewelry, and other pieces created by local residents and sometimes even fashioned where visitors can watch them hard at work. It is easy to see the influences of the German and French immigrants who moved into the area in the late 19th Century and of course the...
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