This reconstructed church, still in use as a monastery, stands in an undeveloped valley inland from Big Sur in the middle of Fort Hunter Liggett Army training center. Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo (Carmel Mission). Visit Mission San Juan Bautista in San Juan Bautista on the Pacific Coast route.Īlso known as Carmel Mission, this was the most important of the California missions. This lovely church forms the heart of an extensive historic park. Mission San Francisco Solano makes an easy detour from San Francisco along the Loneliest Road route. The only mission built under Mexican rule stands at the heart of Sonoma, a history-rich Wine Country town. Nine of the most interesting missions are listed here, north to south, followed by the dates of their founding and a map of the El Camino Real.
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Beginning in 1769 with the founding of a fortress and a Franciscan mission at San Diego, and culminating in 1823 with the founding of another outpost at what is now San Francisco, a series of small but self-reliant religious colonies was established, each a day’s travel apart and linked by El Camino Real, the King’s Highway, a route followed roughly by today’s US‑101. While the American colonies were busy rebelling against the English Crown, a handful of Spaniards and Mexicans were establishing outposts and blazing an overland route up the California coast, along the New World’s most distant frontier. El Camino Real and the California Missions
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