Southern Arizona’s Spanish Colonial Legacy: The Historic San Xavier and Tumacácori Missions and the Tubac Presidio

Saturday, March 5, 2011
9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

A Special Guided Tour with Bernard L. Fontana, Robert Vint, and David Yubeta

In a special one-day tour to three of the most outstanding historic Spanish Colonial period sites in Arizona, ethnohistorian Dr. Bernard L.“Bunny” Fontana and historic architect Bob Vint will show and interpret the recently restored and renovated San Xavier Mission (the so-called “White Dove of the Desert”), which is featured in Dr. Fontana’s and photographer Edward McCain’s new book “A Gift of Angels: The Art of Mission San Xavier del Bac.”

Fontana, Vint, and retired National Park Service historian David Yubeta will then take the tour group into the beautiful upper Santa Cruz Valley to visit San José de Tumacácori Mission and to the historic Tubac Presidio. Coach transportation and box lunch will be provided.

$150 ($125 for Southwestern Mission Research Center members)

Reservations and payment are due no later than February 26, 2011.

Click here for registration forms and instructions.