The university started a football program from nothing, and the owner of the New Orleans Saints paid for the stadium to hold it. Gayle and Tom Benson Stadium, at 4301 Broadway Street on the University of the Incarnate Word campus in San Antonio, opened on 1 September 2008 - funded by the San Antonio-born NFL owner and his wife, whose gifts also launched the Cardinals football program itself. The venue is a true multi-sport facility: home to UIW football, men's and women's soccer, and track and .....

The entire main floor rides on a Gala lift system: overnight, 600 theatre seats sink away and the room becomes a flat-floor hall for 2,100 - one of the most flexible major venues in America. The H-E-B Performance Hall is the centrepiece of the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts at 100 Auditorium Circle on San Antonio's River Walk, opened on 4 September 2014 behind the preserved 1926 facade of the old Municipal Auditorium. The site's history runs deep: the Spanish Mission-style Municipal Audit.....

On the celebrated River Walk in downtown San Antonio, Hopscotch is an immersive art experience that has quickly become one of the most popular non-traditional attractions in the city. Opened in April 2021 in a 20,000-square-foot space that was previously a Hilton Palacio del Rio retail level, the venue presents a sequence of more than a dozen large-scale interactive art installations created by an international roster of contemporary artists, each occupying its own dedicated room and designed to.....

In 1973 neighbours stood between this building and the bulldozers, using their bodies as shields - and won. The Jo Long Theatre for the Performing Arts, the 650-seat mainstage of the Carver Community Cultural Center at 226 North Hackberry Street on San Antonio's Eastside, is the survivor of one of the city's great acts of civil defiance. The building went up in 1918 as a community centre for African-Americans in segregated San Antonio, becoming the Colored Library - renamed the Carver Library a.....

On the historic stretch of Commerce Street just steps from the celebrated River Walk in downtown San Antonio, the LEGOLAND Discovery Center is the international chain's newest North American venue, opened in May 2022 at the Shops at Rivercenter shopping mall. The centre occupies more than 30,000 square feet of bright, interactive space packed with LEGO-themed rides, model displays, hands-on building areas and family entertainment, all geared toward children aged three through ten and their famil.....

National Geographic was consulted so the stars on the ceiling would sit in astronomically correct positions - then a Viennese machine set clouds drifting across them. The Majestic Theatre, at 224 East Houston Street in downtown San Antonio, opened on 14 June 1929 as the finest atmospheric theatre John Eberson ever built - and the first fully air-conditioned theatre in Texas. The statistics stunned 1929: three million dollars, more than 3,700 seats - the largest theatre in the South and second l.....

The building spent 18 years as the White Rabbit, the St. Mary's Strip institution where the Black Crowes, Creed, the Shins, Cage the Elephant and Kendrick Lamar all played on the way up. Paper Tiger, at 2410 North St. Mary's Street in San Antonio, took over the space in 2015 and made it the city's definitive independent music venue. The handover was a genuine changing of the guard: the Sciaraffa family had run the White Rabbit since 1996 - famously keeping it open to under-21 kids when few room.....

Directly opposite the historic Alamo Mission on Alamo Plaza in downtown San Antonio, Ripley's Believe It or Not! San Antonio is one of the most heavily visited tourist attractions in the city's historic district. The 20,000-square-foot complex opened in 1988 as one of the larger North American outposts of the international Ripley's Entertainment chain, founded in the 1930s by the American cartoonist and adventurer Robert Ripley whose syndicated illustrated newspaper feature documenting genuine a.....

A beloved fixture of San Antonio's music scene, Sam's Burger Joint pairs a popular restaurant with an adjoining music hall just north of downtown. Located on East Grayson Street in the historic Government Hill area, the venue has spent years building a devoted following for its blend of classic American food and quality live music, becoming a favoured stop for touring and local acts in a city with deep musical roots. The music hall is an intimate room holding a few hundred people, with a stage,.....

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.....