Visit the Spanish Governor's Palace to experience San Antonio's beginnings.

Constructed between 1877 and 1882, the iconic chapel at San Elizario’s former military presidio was the fourth chapel built after the presidio’s establishment in 1788. Soldiers from San Elzeario (also San Elceario), a decommissioned Spanish fort in Guajoquilla, Mexico (present-day Chihuahua), occupied the new presidio to defend area residents and El Camino Real caravans.