加利福尼亚州的21座教堂（从圣地牙哥到旧金山）都是历史珍宝，是为来自世界各地的游客建造的朝圣场所。这些本极为漂亮的建筑物通常是由黏土砖和木头建造，并用塔、穹顶和粉饰灰泥进行装饰，大部分周围都有郁郁葱葱的花园。这些教堂位于加利福尼亚的正中心。

加利福尼亚的教堂由西班牙的牧师创立、由加利福尼亚当地人建造，并由历史学家和建筑师保存和修复，它们是纪念该地区早期的美国印第安人和欧洲人历史的****的纪念碑。这本五颜六色，富含信息的书探索了所有21个教堂（每一个教堂都有着自己丰富的历史），沿着有历史意义的Camino Real路，从拥有鲜花遍地的庭院花园的都勒教堂（位于旧金山），走到圣胡安-卡皮斯特拉诺教堂，这座教堂因吸引了成群的燕子在其迷人的庭院驻足而闻名。

The twenty-one missions of California, from San Diego to San Francisco Solano, are historic treasures and sites of pilgrimage for visitors from the world over. Intrinsically beautiful structures typically built of adobe brick and wood, adorned with towers, domes, whitewashed stucco, often surrounded by lush gardens, the missions are at the very heart of California.

Established by Spanish padres, built by Native Californians, and preserved and restored by historians and architects, California’s missions are unique monuments to the region’s early American Indian and European histories. This colorful, informative exploration of all twenty-one missions, each with its own rich story to tell, journeys along the historic Camino Real, from Mission Dolores with its flower-strewn courtyard gardens, in San Francisco, to San Juan Capistrano, famous for the swallows that flock to its inviting grounds. With lush photography that captures the missions’ details so splendidly, this is the perfect book for mission visitors and lovers of their strong and simple forms.