San Juan Bautista Attractions
San Juan Bautista is located north of Salinas, in the San Juan Valley between the Gabilan Mountains and Flint Hills. A visit to San Juan Bautista must include a day at the Old Mission San Juan Bautista, the largest of the California missions and the only Spanish Plaza left in California at the San Juan Bautista State Historic Park.
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San Juan Baptista - El Teatro Campesino
El Teatro Campesino (The Farmworkers Theater) began as a way to raise funds for the grape boycott and farmworker strike in 1965. By 1970, it had established what would come to be known as teatro chicano. It was style of agitprop theater that incorporated the spiritual and presentational style of the Italian Renaissance commedia dell'arte with the humor, character types, folklore and popular culture of the Mexican theater.
El Teatro Campesino
Box 1240
San Juan Bautista, CA 95045-1240
United States
Box 1240
San Juan Bautista, CA 95045-1240
United States
Phone 1 (831) 623-2444
Fax 1 (831) 623-4127
San Juan Bautista State Historic Park
The highlight of the San Juan Bautista State Historic Park is the old Plaza Hotel built in 1858. There is also a Spanish soldier's barracks. The Plaza Hotel and stable, blacksmith shop, granary, jail and several houses are also on the grounds. Exhibits show life in California during the Mission, Mexican and early American periods.
