Dog resting outside San Xavier Mission

The San Xavier Mission in Tucson Arizona is a look into the desert’s past.

Located south of Tucson heading towards the U.S. Mexico border, the mission is one of the finest examples of colonial European architecture in the world.

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The front of the mission faces Mexico to the south. The mission’s beautiful white exterior would have been the first sight many pilgrims traveling north would have seen coming out of the desert.

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