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 2001 marks 25 years of Bayfest
From its beginnings as a bicentennial celebration in 1976, Bayfest has become the largest annual festival in Corpus Christi, attracting between 130,000 and 140,000 people last year. Twenty-five years later, the event is bigger and better than ever.
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Downtown Corpus Christi map
Attractions, hotels, local art and more.
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Witness hometown hospitality in Kingsville
South Texas’ glorious railroad and ranching past is charmingly preserved for visitors in Kingsville. Located just 45 miles southwest of Corpus Christi on U.S. Highway 77, Kingsville is a thriving community of about 26,000 who, beginning in the mid 1980s, revitalized their town into a bustling business center with turn-of-the-century flavor.
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Rockport was once the cowtown of Gulf Coast
At the end of the Civil War, soldiers came home barefoot and broke. They returned to South Texas to find vast herds of wild, unbranded cattle, there for the taking, and they took longhorns not branded, trail-broke them, and drove them to Kansas rail-heads where they were destined for northern cities hungry for beef.
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Visitor Information
Check here for any phone numbers or other information you may need while traveling through the Coastal Bend.
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Shopping
A listing of merchants local to the Coastal Bend area.
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A
priest, a poem, a president's brother begot area names
The map of South Texas would
look a lot different today if some of the earlier names of area towns had survived.
For example, Tilden, county seat of McMullen, was called Dogtown in the 1860s
and '70s.
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Harbor
Playhouse offers great acts to follow
The Harbor Playhouse
keeps the theater tradition alive and thriving in the city of Corpus Christi.
Located downtown in the arts district, the Harbor Playhouse is home to a year-round
school of theater and serves as a showcase for a variety of productions, including
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The Blue
Ghost is alive with thrills for the whole family
Take your
own tour of the Lexington, experience the sensation of flight or watch a mega-sized
movie There's an arsenal of attractions and programs for people of all ages to
enjoy on the Lexington Museum on the Bay. Visitors can explore vintage aircraft
and stand in the flying bridge as they leisurely tour the ship seven days a week.
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Selena lives in the hearts of South Texans
Each day, visitors can
be seen at Selena's seawall statue, one of Corpus Christi's most prominent tourist
attractions. Selena Quintanilla-Perez was an acclaimed Tejano singer and Corpus
Christi resident who was on the verge of achieving international stardom when
she was shot to death on March 31, 1995, by former fan club president Yolanda
Saldivar.
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