Our Irving logo carries Texas's longhorn and Lone Star, drawn in worn black and white above ‘Texas Republic — Est. 1845,’ the shared retro emblem of our Texas towns. The longhorn stands for ranching toughness and the star for the Lone Star State, and the 1845 date marks Texas statehood; the emblem is the through-line that links Irving to every other Texas town we make. What makes this one Irving is everything around it — the mustangs, the canals of Las Colinas, and a farm town that became a city of the world.
What Las Colinas chose to put at its center says everything about how Texas sees itself. Not a founder, not a logo — a herd of wild horses. The mustangs commemorate the free-running herds that roamed the Texas range before the ranches and the rails, the animals that carried the state's idea of freedom and grit. Today they are the city's signature, watched over by a small museum in the tower beside the plaza, and the reason a planned business district carries a wild heart. The sculpture took its maker eight years to model and cast, and the plaza around it earned a national landscape-architecture honor award soon after it opened.
Why People Visit Irving
Irving offers art, water, and wild bronze horses in the middle of the Metroplex. Visitors come for the Mustangs, the canals, and the music, and stay for a central, easygoing base beside DFW with museums, sculpture plazas, and trails close at hand. It is both a cultural stop and a convenient home base, with year-round appeal in its parks, paths, and public spaces.
