Culture
Museo de las Memorias: Dictadura y Derechos Humanos
Asunción
Former headquarters of the feared "Técnica" (DNAT), a detention and torture center during the Stroessner dictatorship; today a museum and memory site on human rights.
Museo Casa de la Independencia
Asunción
1772 colonial house where Paraguayan patriots planned the 1811 independence; a museum since 1965 with period furniture, documents, and objects.
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes
Asunción
Founded in 1909 based on the collection of Juan Silvano Godoy; brings together more than 650 works of Paraguayan and European art, including the Guarani baroque of the Jesuit missions.
Museo del Barro
Asunción
Visual arts center founded in 1979 by Olga Blinder and Carlos Colombino, with collections of pre-Columbian indigenous ceramics, folk art, and Paraguayan contemporary art.
Teatro Guaraní
Centro, Asunción
Teatro Guaraní is one of Asunción's largest venues, seating close to 800 in its main hall, plus a smaller room, the Café Concert, for about 80 people. It hosts theater, music and institutional events.
Panteón Nacional de los Héroes
Asunción
National mausoleum in neoclassical style, inspired by Les Invalides in Paris; holds the remains of Marshal Francisco Solano López, Carlos Antonio López, and other Paraguayan founding fathers.
Anfiteatro José Asunción Flores
San Bernardino, San Bernardino
With room for about 20,000 spectators, this amphitheater in San Bernardino honors the creator of the guarania, José Asunción Flores. It opened in 1992 and serves as a venue for concerts and events.
Teatro Latino
Asunción
Theater hall founded in 1984, with seating for 390, dedicated to theater, dance, concerts, and film.
Teatro Arlequín
Asunción
A theater founded in 1982 by José Luis Ardissone in a converted former discotheque; with 350+ productions over 40+ years, it served as a cultural resistance space under the dictatorship and today also runs an acting school.
Sala Molière (Alianza Francesa de Asunción)
Asunción
Historic 232-seat theater hall within the Alliance Française of Asunción, open since 1979 and renovated in 2010.
Teatro Municipal Ignacio A. Pane
Asunción
Asunción's oldest theater, in neoclassical style, with nearly 180 years of history and seating for hundreds of spectators.
Iglesia de la Encarnación
Asunción
Asunción's only church with a basilica floor plan, in Romanesque-Corinthian style, built from 1893 and inaugurated in 1912; it served as a field hospital during the Chaco War.