Some friends from dancing and I went to see the painted churches, which are just gorgeous. It's just another side of Texas I had never seen before. I knew about the Czech and the German heritage, but this is vastly different. Four churches about 10 miles apart were built by these immigrant communities in a very European style. But because they didn't have stone or marble, they painted everything to look like what they had back home.
It's very different from, say, the missions in San Antonio or much else of Texas because there was absolutely no Hispanic influence whatsoever anywhere. Not in the architecture, in the decoration or in the layout. And all four date back only to the late 19th or early 20th century.
