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Santa Cruz Mission State Historic Park

Fodor's Review:

On the northern fringes of downtown, Santa Cruz Mission State Historic Park preserves the site of California's 12th Spanish Mission, built in the 1790s and destroyed by an earthquake in 1857. A museum in a restored 1791 adobe and a half-scale replica of the mission church are part of the complex.

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