San Diego de Alcala                                  Serra Museum
 
 
                                                   San Diego de Alcala 
Twenty-one spanish missions were established in  California.  The first to be  founded was San Diego in 1769, and the last was San Francisco Solano in 1823.  The names of many present-day California Cities are drived from the Spanish missions. 
 
 
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by Maria Hetenyi