Tucson is about 120 km from Nogales, on the border with Mexico and just before that is a small town called Tubac, dating back to 1752. This is now an art and craft town with beautiful galleries and gift shops selling local and Mexican art and craft. There is also a small Spanish mission, Tumacacori ,built in the 1600s by Jesuit then Franciscan monks as a mission to the local O’odham people. It is now just an historical site as anti Spanish violence in the 178h century meant it had to be closed down.
We had lunch at a golf resort nearby looking out over green grass to the Santa Rita Mountain range.
Sculptures Tubac
Tumacacori Mission
Mission Church - not quite up to the standards of La Sagrada Familia but it was built in the 17th century
What’s left of the sanctuary
The bell tower
Tubac Golf resort
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