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Mission Basilica San Diego de Alcala, founded on July 16, 1769, has been celebrating its "jubilee year" throughout 2019. In January, as the landmark turned 250 years old, the public was invited to ...

Mission Basilica San Diego de Alcala, founded in 1769, is located at 10818 San Diego Mission Rd. In honor of the landmark’s “jubilee year,” Father Peter M. Escalante has invited the public ...

The West Coast’s Plymouth Rock, Mission San Diego de Alcalá on Thursday will launch a year of events marking its 250th anniversary. “The mission really is the beginning of what became the ...

If there is a regional style recognizable in San Diego architecture ... Craig Steely of Craig Steely Architecture (San Francisco), Louis Kaufman of De Reus Architects (Idaho-Hawaii-Maui) and ...