San Xavier de Bac, a Treasure in the Desert
November 19th 2009 Geo: 31.9755, -111.098Only 9 miles south of Tuscon, the San Xavier mission commands the eye. This is not a blend-into-the-surroundings kind of building. It sits starkly white against the drab desert like nothing else. It's Baroque. It's Mexican Renaissance. It's Moorish. And it's Byzantine.But seeing it THERE, with no water around, makes you really scratch your head. WHY HERE? W
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