How to visit Mission Santa Barbara, colonial traces in California

When you consider the visit of Santa Barbara, Spanish colonial style city which is located on the Pacific coast, 150 kilometers north of Los Angeles, you should know that the most famous corner of it is the Santa Barbara Mission.

It is a colonial mission built in 1786 by Fray Fermín Lasuén, missionary who replaced Friar Junípero Serra as head of the network of missions that the Franciscans built in California during the 18th century.

El objetivo the Santa Barbara Mission was to evangelize the Chumash Indians who lived in that area of California.

Of the importance that the Santa Barbara Mission It is an example of what was known as the “queen of the Californian missions.

Likewise, it was the only mission whose building had two bell towers.

Although, as I have said, the Santa Barbara Mission It was built at the end of the 1812th century, the truth is that the original building was completely destroyed by the earthquake that affected this Californian city in XNUMX.

For this reason the Franciscan building It had to be rebuilt, works that were completed in 1820.

When you get to visit this beautiful building colonial architecture, you will see that the interior of the mission has remained intact since 1820.

Mission Santa Barbara in California in Spanish colonial style

As for the two towers, they had to be rebuilt again in 1925 after being badly damaged by a new earthquake.

Also noteworthy is the water network which was built at the beginning of the 19th century, which continues to be part of the supply network in the city of Santa Barbara.

Next to the Santa Barbara Mission you can see one Moorish style font and some laundries, all original from 1906.