Mission Santa Barbara

- Where do you want to go?

- Santa Barbara

- Why there?

- I know everybody there...

(after watching too much Santa Barbara soap opera)

 Capwell times are already in the past, but Santa Barbara is still an american Riviera of some sort that almost everyone wants to visit or live in. But the city of Santa Barbara is not known only by its fancy resorts and beaches, and the glamour... the famous road of "El Camino Real" goes through the city - almost 600 mile road from San Diego to San Francisco that connected The Spanish California Missions in the old times. The Mission in Santa Barbara is one of those 21 missions. It's still in quite good condition despite having been built back in 1786. It's even shown in the opening theme for the namesake soap opera.

Something like this:

Here are some details about Mission Santa Barbara

This is the monument of the "founding Father" of the entire set of missions and the El Camino Real. The bell is the symbol of all this and is present throughout the road and all 21 missions.

The inside of the mission is somewhat different from its gray-beige outside calmness. And as always - tropical trees and plants. Why not? it's still beautiful...

On the next picture (left to right, top to bottom): courtyard with "little garden" where missionaries taught building and construction principals to the native american Chumash People. Beyond arch galleries there were different kinds of workshops. Below is the church's cemetery garden where lay the late founding fathers and Chumash people.