At the heart of San Antonio is its central river, a crystal-clear lifeline where new museums and hotels share shores with missions nearly 300 years old.
THE SHORTLIST
Things to do in San Antonio to get the real thing in the city.
- Rent bikes at the Blue Star Arts and head south to see the UNESCO-honored Mission Trail
- Start at long-bar Esquire Tavern, then walk the river for candlelit mescal at Hotel Havana
- Drive out to tin-barn Quihi Dancehall, circa 1890, for a two-steppin’ Saturday night
- Sleep in at Hotel Emma, an all-star hotel reimagined inside an old brewhouse
- See Santiago Jimenez’s conjunto jams on Sunday mornings at Carnitas Uruapan
“On a more enchanting spot the eye of a poet never rested. There is probably nothing like it in America.”
- HARPER'S MAGAZINE, 1877
