Historic sites

Jesuit Missions of Trinidad and Jesús

Paraguay Itapúa

Jesuit Missions of Trinidad and Jesús
Photo: ogwen, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The ruins of 18th-century Jesuit missions (reducciones) where Guaraní people lived, with carved red stone churches, a UNESCO site. Trinidad has a night light show.


They're near Encarnación, in southern Paraguay.

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