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1950 W San Xavier Rd
Tucson, AZ 85746


San Xavier del bac Mission
Mission San Xavier del Bac is situated in the Santa Cruz Valley 
nine miles south of Tucson, Arizona on the Tohono O'odham
Native American Reservation.

The celebrated Jesuit missionary and explorer, Father Eusebio 
Francisco Kino, first visited Bac in 1692.  Eight years later 
in 1700, Father Kino laid the foundations of the first church, 
some two miles north of the present site of the Mission.  He 
named it San Xavier in honor of his chosen patron, St. Francis 
Xavier, the illustrious Jesuit "Apostle of the Indies."

In 1768, Fray Francisco Hermengildo Garces, a man of outstanding 
personality and prodigious accomplishments among all missionaries 
in Arizona, established his headquarters at San Xavier. From here 
this Franciscan Friar set forth on his many missionary explorations.
  
The present church was built from 1783 - 1797 by the Franciscan 
Fathers Juan Bautista Velderrain and Juan Bautista Llorenz.  

San Xavier Mission is acclaimed by many to be the finest example 
of mission architecture in the United States.  It is a graceful 
blend of Moorish, Byzantine and late Mexican Renaissance 
architecture, yet the blending is so complete it is hard to tell 
where one type begins and another ends.

After more than two hundred years, the Franciscan Friars are 
still here serving the needs of the faithful.  San Xavier del 
Bac Mission is a fully functioning parish church within the 
Diocese of Tucson.  It is a church that primarily serves the 
Tohono O'odham, but is open to all.  






50 mi south of Tucson
I-19 exit 29


Tumacacori National Historical Park
Tumacácori NHP protects three Spanish colonial mission ruins 
in southern Arizona: Tumacácori, Guevavi, and Calabazas. The 
adobe structures are on three sites, with a visitor center at 
Tumacácori. These missions are among more than twenty 
established in the Pimería Alta by Father Kino and other 
Jesuits, and later expanded upon by Franciscan missionaries.

San Jose de Tumacacori
Los Santos Angeles de Guevavi
San Cayetano de Calabazas







Cochise County, AZ
Daytrip from Tucson


Tombstone / OK Corral
"The town too tough to die!"

Founded as a silver mining town and became the seat
of government for Cochise County.

Famous for the legendary Gunfight at the OK Corral,
the Bird Cage Theater by Big Nose Kate known as the
wildest, wickedest night spot between Basin Street
and the Barbary Coast, and the Boot Hill Graveyard.

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Daytrip from Tucson
I-10 exit 211b AZ-87


Casa Grande Ruins National Monumument
In 1694, Father Eusebio Francisco Kino described his visit to 
Casa Grande, or "Big House," as a 4-story structure built by 
the Hohokam in the mid-1300s. Constructed with layers of caliche 
mud, the walls of the tower are 4 1/2 feet thick at the base. 
This mysterious structure, with holes in 3 walls, is believed 
to have been used for astronomical observation. Casa Grande is 
the largest structure built by the Hohokam and represents the 
height of their architecture.

Casa Grande Ruins National Monument preserves an ancient Hohokam 
farming community and "Great House." Created as the nation’s 
first archeological reserve in 1892, the site was declared a 
National Monument in 1918 “in order that better provision may 
be made for the protection, preservation and care of the ruins 
and the ancient buildings and other objects of prehistoric 
interest thereon.”






Daytrip from Tucson
116 mi east of Tucson
I-10 exit SR-186


Fort Bowie National Historic Site
Fort Bowie commemorates the bitter conflict between Chiricahua 
Apaches and the U.S. military - a lasting monument to the bravery 
and endurance of U.S. soldiers in paving the way for settlement 
and the taming of the western frontier. It provides insight into 
a "clash of cultures," a young nation in pursuit of "manifest 
destiny," and the hunter/gatherer society fighting to preserve 
its existence.

For more than 30 years Fort Bowie and Apache Pass were the focal 
point of military operations eventually culminating in the 
surrender of Geronimo in 1886 and the banishment of the Chiricahuas 
to Florida and Alabama. It was the site of the Bascom Affair, a 
wagon train massacre, and the battle of Apache Pass, where a large 
force of Chiricahua Apaches under Mangus Colorados and Cochise 
fought the California Volunteers.  

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Daytrip from Tucson
82 mi SE of Tucson on I-10


Bisbee Arizona
Bisbee was founded as a copper, gold, and silver mining town 
in 1880, and named in honor of Judge DeWitt Bisbee, one of 
the financial backers of the adjacent Copper Queen Mine.

In 1929, the county seat was moved from Tombstone, Arizona 
to Bisbee, where it remains.

The Copper Queen Mine has public underground mine tours.
Modern Bisbee is known as an artists colony since the 1970s.
Restoration of the Copper Queen Hotel, Brewery and Stock
Exchange, and Main Street with its many art galleries
provide a charming and picturesque of this Old West town.

In 2000 the AARP highlighted Bisbee as a most alive places 
to retire and that it was a runner-up as one of the
quirkiest towns in America.




  

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