With its Moorish domes and bell towers, the splendid Mission San Carlos Borromeo in Carmel is the jewel of the California mission system. The small cell where Father Junipero Serra lived and ...

While Carmel-by-the-Sea is celebrating a century of incorporation, its most famous landmark is working on a quarter of a millennium. San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo Mission — better known as the ...

San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo, Carmel Second mission 1770 Explore all of California’s 21 famed missions >> Like the San Diego mission, this one began next-door to a presidio but soon relocated.

A portrait of Father Junipero Serra stands next to his grave in the Basilica Church at Mission San Carlos Borromeo del Rio Carmelo on Thursday, September 17, 2015 in Carmel-By-The-Sea , Calif.

Only a few touch-up spots of the mess — predominantly paint spewed in several places — was evident by mid-afternoon at the San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo Mission.

In February, Carmel Mission Foundation received a $1,800,000 grant for the Downie Museum and Basilica Forecourt Restoration, which seeks to rejuvenate the Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo ...

Police believe the vandalism occurred between 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 7 a.m. Sunday at the San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo Mission at 3080 Rio Road. VIDEO: Support for canonization of Junipero Serra ...

The Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo in Carmel, California is pictured here in May 2015 and in an older photograph from April 1979.