The Spanish Missions of San Antonio by Lewis F. Fisher offers a richly illustrated and engaging history of San Antonio’s five Spanish colonial missions, now recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. This concise volume explores how the missions were founded in the eighteenth century by Franciscan friars and Native American converts, tracing their early purpose, decline, and eventual restoration. Through detailed new drawings that reimagine each mission compound as it originally appeared, Fisher captures the enduring cultural and architectural legacy of these historic sites. Together, the Alamo and the remaining four missions—now part of San Antonio Missions National Historical Park—form the largest collection of Spanish colonial missions in the United States.