Elvis and Roy Rogers played it in its first years, and a quarter of a million people came through the gates on the opening day of its first rodeo. Freeman Coliseum, at 3201 East Houston Street just northeast of downtown San Antonio, opened on 19 October 1949 as the Bexar County Coliseum - an Art Deco arena built after county voters passed a 1.75-million-dollar bond in 1945, later named for philanthropist brothers Harry and Joe Freeman who championed its construction. For half a century it was t.....

The quieter half of one of Texas's busiest event campuses, the Freeman Expo Halls supply the square footage that the historic coliseum next door cannot. Located at 3201 East Houston Street on the Bexar County Community Arenas grounds - shared with the 1949 Freeman Coliseum and the Spurs' Frost Bank Center - the expo complex was built in 2007 to bring larger and more diverse trade events to San Antonio. The inventory is straightforward and flexible: four climate-controlled halls totalling about .....

The principal indoor arena of San Antonio, Texas, Frost Bank Center is best known as the long-time home of the city's celebrated professional basketball team and as the region's premier venue for major concerts and events. Opened in 2002 and known for much of its life under previous corporate names, the arena sits on the city's east side and has hosted some of the most memorable moments in local sport, including championship celebrations. The arena seats around eighteen and a half thousand for .....

On the north-eastern edge of central San Antonio just east of the Sunken Garden Theater and the Brackenridge Park, the San Antonio Botanical Garden is one of the most beautifully landscaped public gardens in the southern United States. The thirty-eight-acre garden opened in May 1980 after more than a decade of fundraising and planning by the San Antonio Botanical Society and the city's Parks Department, replacing what had been disused dairy farmland on the edge of the Sunken Garden complex. The.....

The Spurs leave town for three weeks every February so two thousand tons of dirt can move in. The San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo, headquartered at the fairgrounds east of downtown, has run annually since 1950 and now draws roughly 1.5 million visitors across its run - one of the largest single events in the city and a fourteen-time PRCA Large Indoor Rodeo of the Year. The event was born of Joe Freeman's 1940s campaign to build a county coliseum for livestock exposition; the Freeman Coliseum o.....

In the historic Brackenridge Park about three miles north of downtown San Antonio along the elegant Broadway corridor, the Witte Museum is one of the largest and most heavily visited natural-history and cultural-history museums in Texas. The museum opened in October 1926 with a small collection of natural-history specimens housed in a former dwelling on the park's eastern edge, the result of a generous bequest by the German-American philanthropist Ellen Witte, whose 1923 will endowed the city wi.....