Capture California, the Game-2012
Adventure: 101, Mission 01
San Juan Bautista, 15th
mission
Team: Thing One, Thing Two
Date: August 4, 2012
Location: San Juan
Bautista
Description:
Thing One and Thing Two decided to go
on a little more out of the way journey to go to the South Bay Area.
So we went through San Juan Bautista and saw its mission. We arrived
at 5:00pm, in time to see those who are part of the ensemble who
portray the times of western San Juan Bautista leaving their jobs.
But we were in time to be reminded of that the mission is part of a
working parish. A wedding had just taken place and the bride was
leaving.
We wandered around the premises for
the next hour, seeing the plaza, the fields being worked behind the
mission cemetery, and the surroundings. The cemetery has 4300 mission
indians, Spanish settlers, and pioneers buried in it. The first
buried was on April 23, 1798, a child by the name of Maria Trinidad.
This park includes several structures built in the 1800s. The four main historic museums are the Plaza Hotel, the Zanetta House/Plaza Hall, the Plaza Stables, and the newly reopened Castro-Breen Adobe.The park also features a blacksmith shop, the historic jail, and an early American settler’s cabin. The feel of this state park is similar to how I thought of Columa within the James Marshall Gold Discovery State Park. You had a working town within the state park—the place was not dead, but interconnected with the present.
From California State Parks site:
Founded by Father Lasuen in 1797 this
mission was unwittingly located directly above the San Andreas fault.
Much of the original structure remains and has been restored to once
again be the largest California mission church and the only one with
three aisles. It was named for John the Baptist. Musical arts were
taught here and the mission owned many instruments, which the Indians
readily took to. Father Tapis developed a colored musical notation
system and taught the Indians to read music as well as play it. Some
of the parchments with colored notations still survive and the
reredos behind the altar is so well-preserved that the paint is still
brilliant.
Second and Mariposa Sts. in San Juan Bautista, 95045, (831) 623-4528
Second and Mariposa Sts. in San Juan Bautista, 95045, (831) 623-4528
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