Events Fiesta, April 20 to 29, is a 10-day celebration that includes scores of concerts and other events and three big parades. A World Odyssey. The theme is Celebration of Lights. For constant music, head to Fiesta del Mercado at Market Square, the city's old Mexican-style market. There will be live mariachi, Tejano, jazz and rock, performed mostly by local and regional groups.
Admission is free and music is scheduled nearly nonstop.
The King William Historic District, a residential area on the San Antonio River about a mile from the Alamo, is filled with lovely restored mansions and houses made of local limestone and caliche blocks. The earliest houses date from 1850, and the styles range from neo-Classical to Greek Revival to Italianate to gingerbread Victorian. During Fiesta, the King William Fair, April 28, offers a neighborhood open house with a funky street parade, food booths, and arts and crafts. The most prominent houses are on King William Street and Madison Street. The centerpiece of San Antonio remains the Alamo, the old stone mission at 300 Alamo Plaza that is the lodestone of Texas history.