Castroville is the Little Alsace of Texas — founded in 1844 by Henri Castro's Alsatian colonists on the Medina River, twenty-five miles west of San Antonio. Roughly a hundred original stone-and-stucco buildings still stand, steep-roofed and lime-plastered, more Rhine Valley than Texas. It anchors the US-90 corridor west from the city: Hondo, D'Hanis, Sabinal, and Uvalde. Working towns, real history, and the closest Hill Country heritage to the state's second-largest metro.
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