Given the size of Texas – it’s the second largest US state, and three times the size of the UK – opportunities abound for finding hidden treasures and surprises. Among the most enchanting of these, especially if you are Catholic, are its Painted Churches.
Set within the rustic idylls of the rolling fields of the Texas Hill Country, four of the most renowned of these elaborately and painstakingly decorated churches are found in the tiny rural communities of High Hill, Ammannsville, Dubina and Praha, dotted around the small quiet town of Schulenberg. The European-sounding names testify to how many of the early settlers to this area were of German, Austrian and Czech descent.
