The Rose Window, Mission San Jose, San Antonio, Texas

The memorable view of the rose window is from the outside, where Pedro Huizar, San José’s carpenter, carved flowers into the stone around the window in the 1780s. Next to the Alamo, the rose window is the single most photographed object in San Antonio. The flowers shown here are not roses, but they are pomegranites. "The Pomegranite Window" just doesn't ring! So it is know as the "Rose Window." Many legends surround the carving of the window. Most are just that, legend.