Culture

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 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.

Fortín Boquerón

Boquerón

A historical-military site in the Chaco, scene of the 1932 Battle of Boquerón during the Chaco War; a free field museum with trenches, cemeteries, and the Potez 25 TOE aircraft.

Basílica de Nuestra Señora de los Milagros de Caacupé

Caacupé

Paraguay's most important Marian shrine; the current basilica was commissioned in 1939, its cornerstone laid in 1945, and construction completed in 2006, before Pope Francis elevated it to Minor Basilica status in 2015.

Misión Jesuítica Guaraní de San Cosme y Damián

San Cosme y Damián

A Jesuit mission founded in 1632, the only one to keep its original school building standing among the 30 Guaraní reductions; on UNESCO's Tentative List and the historic home of Jesuit astronomer Buenaventura Suárez.

Misión Jesuítica de Jesús de Tavarangüe

Jesús de Tavarangüe

A Jesuit mission founded in 1685, known for its unfinished great church — a replica of the one in Loyola, Italy; a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1993 alongside Trinidad, with a nightly 3D video-mapping show.

Misión Jesuítica de la Santísima Trinidad del Paraná

Trinidad

Paraguay's best-preserved Guaraní reduction, founded in 1706; a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1993 alongside Jesús de Tavarangüe, with two on-site museums and a nightly light-and-sound show.

Catedral Metropolitana Nuestra Señora de la Asunción

Catedral, Asunción

Seat of the first diocese of the Río de la Plata; neoclassical cathedral blessed in 1845, with a silver-clad main altar, visited by Popes John Paul II (1988) and Francis (2015).