This Week: Presidio La Bahia

This week is the last location from my Goliad trip and my favorite stop during my time there, Presidio La Bahia.  I had such a wonderful sense of history, time and place when I was there.  I'm sure that seeing the other pieces of the Goliad Massacre story before arriving here heightened my awareness of the history and it is just a beautiful building lovingly restored.  It is the only surviving example of a Spanish Colonial mission/presidio in Texas and one of the few in North America.  From this place, James Fannin and 400 of his men were executed during the Texas war for independence.  Their monument is just outside the walls of the Presidio.  This is from inside the grounds looking towards the chapel.