Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
town Visitors Center (
Click here
)
. Advance tickets for many of the biggest events are sold
through Ticketmaster (
Click here
)
.
San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo
RODEO
mid-Feb)
Big-name concerts follow each night's rodeo; 16 days in mid-
February.
CULTURAL
Fiesta San Antonio
(
www.fiesta-sa.org
;
mid-Apr)
For over 10 days in mid-April there are river parades, carnivals,
Tejano music, dancing and tons of food in a mammoth, citywide party.
Fiesta Noche del Rio
(
www.fiestanochesa.com
; late May-early Sep)
All summer long, the Fiesta Noche del Rio brings
Latin music to the Arneson River Theater in a series of concerts and dance performances.
PERFORMING ARTS
Alamo Bowl
(
www.alamobowl.com
;
Dec)
A college football championship of Big 10 vs Big 12 conference
teams draws up to 65,000 spectators to the
Alamodome
SPORTS
MAP
FIESTA SAN ANTONIO
In late April, hundreds of thousands of partygoers throng the streets of San Antonio for Fiesta San Antonio (
Click
here
). A 10-day series of riotous events makes for the city's biggest celebration, with general mayhem, fairs,
rodeos, races and a whole lot of music and dancing. Going strong after more than 120 years, the festival is the
high point of the River City's year.
Fiesta San Antonio dates back to 1891, when local women paraded on horseback in front of the Alamo and
threw flowers at each other, all meant to honor the heroes of the Alamo and the Battle of San Jacinto. Today's
Battle of the Flowers
(
www.battleofflowers.org
)
is only a small piece of Fiesta, which has grown into an enorm-
ous party involving 75,000 volunteers, millions of spectators and more than 150 events.
At the beginning of Fiesta week, the
Texas Cavaliers' River Parade
kicks off with decorated floats drifting
along the San Antonio River and a pilgrimage to the Alamo. On the final Saturday night,
Fiesta Flambeau
claims to be the largest lighted parade in the USA, with marchers carrying candles, sparklers, flashlights, torches
and anything else handy.
But locals' top pick of Fiesta week is
A Night in Old San Antonio
(aka 'NIOSA') which runs for four nights,
during which a small army of women volunteers transform La Villita into a multiethnic bazaar of food, music,
dancing, arts and much, much more.
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