April 3, 2019
Mission San Luis Rey de Francia
In my continuing(as I make my way to them) series of the Spanish California Missions, I visited Mission San Luis Rey prior to visiting The Bloom. I’d noticed the sign along side the road on my trip to San Diego(where I visited the mission there). Mission San Luis Rey was the 18th of the 12 missions founded in 1798. This is one of the first missions that I’ve visited that has a dome(the Great Stone Church at San Juan Capistrano did, but it fell victim to the 1812 earthquake). The Mission is well preserved and the grounds are pretty large, though much smaller than they were during the mission period.
Read MoreIn my continuing(as I make my way to them) series of the Spanish California Missions, I visited Mission San Luis Rey prior to visiting The Bloom. I’d noticed the sign along side the road on my trip to San Diego(where I visited the mission there). Mission San Luis Rey was the 18th of the 12 missions founded in 1798. This is one of the first missions that I’ve visited that has a dome(the Great Stone Church at San Juan Capistrano did, but it fell victim to the 1812 earthquake). The Mission is well preserved and the grounds are pretty large, though much smaller than they were during the mission period.
Wide shot of Mission San Luis Rey
This is a view of the front of the mission. You can see to the far left the opening into the main courtyard and the building to the left side of the courtyard. They don’t have a parking lot in the courtyard as they do in San Diego
