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San Antonio is a picturesque city that is noted for its plazas, numerous parks, spacious residential districts, and many buildings of historic interest. The city itself covers a land area of 332.9 sq mi. It is the heart of a metropolitan area, composed of the counties of Bexar, Comal, Guadalupe, and Wilson, with a land area of 3,326.8 sq mi. Some 34 cities and towns are located in the metropolitan region, most of which are relatively small. Six small cities exist as enclaves within San Antonio itself: Leon Valley, Alamo Heights, Terrell Hills, Castle Hills, Balcones Heights, and Olmos Park.

The narrow upper course of the San Antonio River, spanned by many bridges, winds through the city, making a horseshoe-shaped bend around the central business district. Along its banks in midtown is the Paseo del Rio, or River Walk, a popular walkway with shops and restaurants shaded by large cypress and palm trees. Scenic excursions aboard small riverboats through the district is one of the city’s premier activities for visitors. HemisFair Plaza, site of a world’s fair in 1968 celebrating the city’s 250th anniversary, adjoins the river. The site of downtown recreation and entertainment, the plaza contains a convention center and the Tower of the Americas, a spire 622 ft high that affords panoramic views of the city. The river winds past La Villita, or The Little Village, a complex of restored buildings from the city’s earliest residential settlement and now an arts and crafts community. To the west of downtown San Antonio is Market Square, patterned after markets in Mexico. Immediately south of downtown, along the river, is the King William District, an area settled in the 19th century by wealthy Germans and noted for its unique architecture.

Spaced along the river south of downtown San Antonio are the four missions constructed by the Spanish that comprise the San Antonio Missions National Historical Park: Nuestra Señora de la Purísima Concepción de Acuña, San José y San Miguel de Aguayo, San Juan Capistrano, and San Francisco de la Espada. Other important architectural sites in the city are the Spanish Governor’s Palace (completed in 1749), once the seat of Spanish government in Texas; San Fernando Cathedral, originally constructed by workers from the Canary Islands after they arrived in 1731 and rebuilt in 1873 after a fire; the Quadrangle at Fort Sam Houston (1878); and the Bexar County Courthouse, constructed of pink granite and sandstone and completed in 1895.

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