Like the San Diego mission, this one began next door to a presidio but soon relocated. It became the headquarters of mission founder Father Junipero Serra and was where he died in 1784. This site ...

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 ...

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

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.