Fiesta San Antonio
San Antonio, TX · Festival
- When
- April 15–25, 2027
- Where
- Downtown San Antonio and Alamo Plaza · San Antonio · TX
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
Eleven days and more than a hundred separate events, originating in an 1891 parade honouring the dead of the Alamo and San Jacinto. The Battle of Flowers Parade, staged by an all-woman association since 1891, remains the centrepiece.
The history within reach
- Fiesta San Antoniosame spot
Eleven days and more than a hundred separate events, originating in an 1891 parade honouring the dead of the Alamo and San Jacinto.
- The Menger and the Rough Riderssame spot
A German brewer built a hotel beside the Alamo with a bar copied from the House of Lords taproom.
Each March the San Antonio River is dyed green along its downtown reach, a tradition the Harp & Shamrock Society of Texas has kept since the late 1960s.
- Battle of the Alamo0.1 mi
Mexican forces under Santa Anna took the mission after a thirteen-day siege ending March 6, 1836.
Clergy and business leaders met privately and agreed to integrate before anyone had to sit in.