Guided Tours in San Antonio
Self-guided walking and driving tours in San Antonio, Texas. Tap any tour for the story and where it starts, then follow every stop with maps and audio in the Texas Roam app.
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Remember the Alamo: The Thirteen Days
Stand on the real ground of the 1836 siege
Architecture
King William: Mansions of the German Merchant Princes
A walk through San Antonio's first suburb, house by Victorian house
Military
Fort Sam Houston: The Quadrangle, Geronimo & Military City USA
Where Apache prisoners, Army aviators, and five generations of soldiers all passed through one gate
Military
Cemetery Row: San Antonio's Historic Burial Grounds
Confederate soldiers, US Army dead, and five faiths, all within a few East Side blocks
Architecture
Monte Vista: Mansion Row of the Gilded Age
Texas's largest contiguous historic district, block after block
Architecture
The Mission Trail: Texas's Only World Heritage Site
Driving the string of four still-active 18th-century missions
Architecture
Brackenridge Park: Springs, Quarries, Golf & War
A city park built on a limestone quarry and a Confederate tannery
Fun Parks
Float the Alamo City: Every Lazy River in the Metro
A completist's road trip through San Antonio's inner-tube rivers
Pioneers & Settlement
Founders of the Republic: San Fernando Cemetery No. 1
San Antonio's oldest continuously used cemetery, and the Tejano families who fought and signed for Texas independence
Architecture
Broadway's Museum Row: Witte, SAMA, McNay & Pop Culture
San Antonio's flagship museum corridor, strung along Broadway
Architecture
Downtown's Gilded Marquees: Hotels & Movie Palaces
A stroll past San Antonio's grand hotel lobbies and atmospheric movie palaces
Outlaws & True Crime
Fatal Corner
San Antonio's Gunfighters' Showdown
Pioneers & Settlement
Market Square & Milam Park: El Mercado and Its People
Spanish colonial plaza to the largest Mexican market north of the border
Food & Drink
Pearl District: From Brewery to Culinary Capital
A 19th-century San Antonio brewery reborn as a food-and-culture district
Food & Drink
Puffy Tacos & Barbacoa: San Antonio's Signature Flavors
A driving tour of the dishes San Antonio invented — and still owns
Food & Drink
San Antonio Classics: The Historic Downtown Table
Century-old restaurants and bars, from Alamo Plaza to Market Square
Civil Rights
Tejano Patriots of San Antonio
The native San Antonio families who signed Texas into a nation of its own
Architecture
The Acequias: San Antonio's 300-Year-Old Water Engineering
Follow the Spanish colonial ditches that still water the city
Live Music
Conjunto Roots: The Sound of the West Side
From a barrio dance hall to the world's longest-running conjunto festival
Architecture
Cotton, Wool & Marble: Banking Row
The frontier fortunes that built San Antonio's marble bank lobbies
Civil Rights
Fighting for Justice: Civil Rights Landmarks
A driving tour of the court case, the strike, and the institutions that shaped civil rights in San Antonio
Military
Four Flags Over the Plaza: Siege, Invasion & Surrender
One small plaza, a Texian assault, a Mexican reconquest, and a Confederate surrender
Pioneers & Settlement
Guenther House & the San Antonio River Mills
Three generations of water-powered mills on one river
Architecture
HemisFair '68: Texas Meets the World
Six months that built San Antonio's skyline
Aviation
Kelly, Lackland & Randolph: The Air Force's Texas Home
Three bases, one story — how San Antonio earned the name Military City USA
Architecture
La Villita: Village Reborn
San Antonio's oldest neighborhood, saved and restored
Pioneers & Settlement
Main Plaza: Heart of Spanish Texas
Where 15 Canary Island families founded the first chartered town in Texas
Architecture
Mission San José: Queen of the Missions
The largest, most fully restored of San Antonio's four missions
Architecture
Museum Reach: Public Art Along the River Walk North
Sculpture, bridges, and civic revival on San Antonio's northern River Walk
Film & TV
San Antonio Plays Itself
The Alamo & River Walk on the Big Screen
Architecture
Southtown & the Blue Star Arts Complex
Where a cold-storage warehouse became San Antonio's arts scene
Pioneers & Settlement
The Alamo Wars: Saving the Shrine (1905–1936)
Two women's public feud saved the Alamo, not the state
Civil Rights
The Carver & East Side: African American Heritage Trail
Jazz greats, a human shield, and the church that founded a college
Architecture
The River Walk Story: From Flood to Fame
How a killer flood became Texas's top attraction
Aviation
Wings of the South Side: Stinson Field to Brooks
From Katherine Stinson's flying school to an astronaut's memorial hangar
Aviation
Birthplace of Military Aviation: Fort Sam to Stinson
Where Lt. Foulois taught himself to fly, and the Army's air arm took its first steps
Architecture
Faith on the West Side: Our Lady of the Lake
A century and a half of Catholic sisters, a university, and two burial grounds
Presidents
Fort Sam Houston Romance: How Ike Met Mamie
A young lieutenant, an officer-of-the-day round, and the start of a 52-year marriage
Civil Rights
Guadalupe Street: Birthplace of Tejano Arts
A West Side walk through theater, protest, murals, and memory
Haunted
Haunted Alamo Plaza: Ghosts of the Menger & Emily Morgan
Two of America's most-haunted hotels, a five-minute walk from the Alamo
Haunted
Haunted King William
San Antonio's most storied historic district, after dark
Haunted
Legends of San Antonio: Ghost Tracks & La Llorona
A 90-year-old optical illusion, a real ruin, a real mission, and Texas's oldest folk tale
Architecture
Mission Espada & America's Oldest Standing Aqueduct
The southernmost mission and the Spanish aqueduct still watering its fields
Pioneers & Settlement
Mission San Juan Capistrano & the Farm Fields
From the 1731 church to the demonstration farm still fed by the mission's acequia
Pioneers & Settlement
Plaza de Armas: Seat of Spanish Texas
The plaza that ran Spanish colonial Texas
Film & TV
San Antonio's Latino Media Legacy
Spanish TV, Tejano Sound & CineFestival
Railroads
St. Paul Square & Sunset Station: The East Side's Railroad Heart
The 1902 depot that built a Black business district — reborn as a nightlife landmark
Food & Drink
The Chili Queens of Military Plaza
How lantern-lit chili stands built Tex-Mex
Fun Parks
The Japanese Tea Garden: A Quarry's Second Life
An abandoned cement pit reborn as one of Texas's most photographed gardens
Railroads
The Westside Depot: Immigration, Rails & the Alazán
San Antonio's immigrant rail gateway, and a Texas Revolution battlefield beneath it
Film & TV
Wings & the Air Age
How San Antonio Won Hollywood's First Best Picture
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