Show VISITOR TO ALAMO GETS REAL THRILL historic structure filled with relics perhaps the best known of all places of interest in san antonio texas Is the alamo this famous building faces alamo plaza a park way two blocks long by a block wide in which grow palms and various other semi tropical trop icil trees and plants the alamo Is a small building of adobe surrounded by a court in closed with a high stone wall the thrill of the alamo comes as you first place foot on its floor the very atmosphere of the place the recollection of the deeds of valor enacted within it quickens the blood to stand in the small room where colonel bowie lay III when the fort was surrounded brings the struggle for texas independence very close to the present day to see the line across which the defenders stepped to indicate their choice when the question of defense or abandonment of the mission was vlas put to them by their commander to go into the room in fr which davy crockett was slain all these give the stranger a clear conception of why the sons and daughters of the texas tion are justly proud of their state their history their d an and its shrines the alamo is filled with relics relies of early texas history each with an explanatory card A half day can be spent in the alamo inspecting the mementoes of that period of texas history american history and world history too often unnoticed in the busy work a day world another interesting sight in down town san antonio Is san fernando cathedral this remarkable old church was built in 1731 it Is in an excellent state of preservation and services conducted in spanish are held in it every sunday next door to it Is a modern ture of twelve stories and as one stands across the square and con templates the two one cannot fall to be struck with the contrast between the busy thriving city of today and the spanish world that flourished once at san antonio and Is gone for ever |