San Antonio Sister Cities -- Institute of Texan Cultures, San Antonio TX
N 29° 25.025 W 098° 28.936
14R E 550223 N 3254307
A creative visual of sister cities of San Antonio turns their names and locations into a set of direction and distance arrows
Waymark Code: WMXN8Q
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 02/01/2018
Views: 3
This set of direction and distance arrows for each of San Antonio sister cities stands in the Institute of Texan cultures, a cultural history Museum of Texas, in HemisFair park. Many of these cities have connections with groups of emigrants from these locations who came to Texas during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to make San Antonio their home.
Historic significance:
This marker was placed by the Institute of Texan cultures to underscore the multicultural flavor of San Antonio, which was founded by Canary Islands emigrants in 1731, and peopled by emigrants of Spanish, Mexican, American, Chinese, German, Swiss, and African nations.
Location nearest to where you live now:
Monterrey MX, 281 miles from San Anmtonio
Date placed: Not listed
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