| Country |
Details |
Photo |
Description |
Year
Taken |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Asuncion
|
 |
Asuncion is the small capital of Paraguay founded in 1537 and becoming capital in 1811.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Asuncion
|
 |
The city lies on the banks of the Rio Paraguay.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Asuncion
|
 |
The Rio Paraguay is part of the Rio Plata system, the second largest river system in South America.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Asuncion
|
 |
The Presidential Palace dates from 1860.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Asuncion
Site / Event : Casa Viola
|
 |
The Casa Viola (1750) is one of the city's few remaining colonial buildings.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Asuncion
Site / Event : Casa Viola
|
 |
The two level courtyard of the elegant building.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Asuncion
Site / Event : Casa Viola
|
 |
The house is a museum famous for its collection of maps.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Asuncion
Site / Event : Casa Viola
|
 |
Orange tress in the courtyard.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Asuncion
|
 |
Street scene in the busy centre.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Asuncion
|
 |
The courtyard of a 17th century Jesuit seminary now used for government offices.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Asuncion
|
 |
One of several iron wells dating from colonial times.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Asuncion
Site / Event : Palacio Legislativo
|
 |
The pink Palacio Legislativo dates from 1857.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Asuncion
Site / Event : Palacio Legislativo
|
 |
The debating chamber.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Asuncion
|
 |
The Cathedral dates from 1845.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Asuncion
|
 |
Quiet Sunday street.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Asuncion
|
 |
Colonial well with ironwork.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Asuncion
|
 |
The Casa de la Independencia (1772) where the country's independence was declared in 1811.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Asuncion
Site / Event : Pantheon
|
 |
The Pantheon is the tomb of the country's heroes and presidents.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Asuncion
Site / Event : Pantheon
|
 |
Guards at the entrance.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Asuncion
Site / Event : Pantheon
|
 |
The decorated interior.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Asuncion
District : Plaza de los Heroes
|
 |
The Plaza de los Heroes is the city's large but bland square.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Asuncion
District : Plaza de los Heroes
|
 |
Playing draughts (checkers) in the shady square.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Asuncion
District : Plaza de los Heroes
|
 |
Shoe shiners.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Asuncion
District : Plaza de los Heroes
|
 |
Group at an election meeting in the main square.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Asuncion
District : Plaza de los Heroes
|
 |
Television presenter covering the election.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Asuncion
District : Plaza de los Heroes
|
 |
Children at an election meeting.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Asuncion
|
 |
Magazine stall.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Asuncion
|
 |
Restaurant in the city centre.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Asuncion
|
 |
Election posters.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Asuncion
|
 |
Lace making is very popular in Paraguay.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Asuncion
|
 |
Nanduti lace is a speciality of the country.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Asuncion
|
 |
Each village around Asuncion makes its own distinctive type of Nanduti lace.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Asuncion
|
 |
Terere is a local tea drunk through metal straws from metal cups.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Asuncion
|
 |
Wood panelled pharmacy.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Asuncion
District : Recova
|
 |
Recova is a covered market full of crafts.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Asuncion
District : Recova
|
 |
Nanduti lace is very colourful and unique.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Asuncion
Site / Event : Railway Station
|
 |
The British built railway station dates from 1861 and is one of the oldest in South America.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Asuncion
Site / Event : Railway Station
|
 |
One of many steam engines at Asuncion station.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Asuncion
Site / Event : Railway Station
|
 |
Old railway carriage at the station.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Asuncion
Site / Event : Railway Station
|
 |
Steam train preparing to depart from the station.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Asuncion
District : Pettirossi Market
|
 |
The Pettirossi Saturday market.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Asuncion
District : Pettirossi Market
|
 |
Grilled meat.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Asuncion
District : Pettirossi Market
|
 |
Drinking terere, a local tea drunk through a metal straw.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Asuncion
District : Pettirossi Market
|
 |
Metalware shop.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Asuncion
|
 |
A group of Guarani women selling crafts.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Asuncion
|
 |
Buses in the city centre.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Aregua
|
 |
Steam railway at Aregua, a small village near Asuncion.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Aregua
|
 |
Small homestead in Aregua, a village by the Rio Paraguay.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Aregua
|
 |
Traditional style farmhouse.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Aregua
|
 |
One of many small farms in the region.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Aregua
|
 |
Brick well.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Aregua
|
 |
Local bus.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Aregua
|
 |
Lake Ypacarai is surrounded by forest.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Aregua
|
 |
The shore of Lake Ypacarai.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Itagua
|
 |
Itagua is a village founded in 1728.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Itagua
|
 |
Itagua is full of houses in the Guarani-Jesuit style.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Itagua
|
 |
Houses in the Guarani-Jesuit style have outside pillars.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Itagua
|
 |
Quiet street scene.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Itagua
|
 |
Local school.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Itagua
|
 |
Typical balconied house.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Itagua
|
 |
Beautiful Guarani-Jesuit style mansion.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Itagua
|
 |
Cloistered house.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Itagua
|
 |
The church in Itagua features a Guarani style external cloister.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Itagua
|
 |
Painted house.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Itagua
|
 |
Lace is made in Itagua.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Itagua
|
 |
The village is famous for its Nanduti lace.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Itagua
|
 |
Lace shop, one of several in the village.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Itagua
|
 |
Nanduti lace is all hand made.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Itagua
|
 |
Detail of the very colourful Nanduti lace.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Itagua
|
 |
Nanduti lace is very distinctive and unique to Paraguay.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Itagua
|
 |
Nanduti image of a basket.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Itagua
|
 |
Crochet is very popular in the village.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Itagua
|
 |
Woman making lace.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Itagua
|
 |
Exquisite lacework.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Itagua
|
 |
Blue and white Nanduti lace.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Itagua
|
 |
A sample of beautiful Nanduti lace from the village of Itagua.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Itagua
|
 |
Very delicate lacework.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Ita
|
 |
Ita is a village of kilns.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Ita
|
 |
Ita is famous for its ceramics.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Ita
|
 |
Potter at work.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Ita
|
 |
Pots drying in the Sun.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Ita
|
 |
The ceramics of Ita are very elaborately decorated.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Ita
|
 |
One of the many ceramic shops in the village.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Ita
|
 |
Painted and unpainted ceramics.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Ita
|
 |
Two little piggies.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Yagaron
Site / Event : Yagaron Church
|
 |
Yagaron was a centre of Fransiscan missions during colonial times.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Yagaron
Site / Event : Yagaron Church
|
 |
Yagaron Church, built in 1640, is the best example of Guarani-Spanish Baroque. It is 70m long.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Yagaron
Site / Event : Yagaron Church
|
 |
Free standing wooden bell tower.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Yagaron
Site / Event : Yagaron Church
|
 |
Carved church door. Yagaron Church is a prototype of the Mission churches in Paraguay.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Yagaron
Site / Event : Yagaron Church
|
 |
The wood carvings are painted with traditional Guarani plant pigments.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Yagaron
Site / Event : Yagaron Church
|
 |
Carved wooden crucifix in a plain interior.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Yagaron
Site / Event : House of Dr Francia
|
 |
Colonial house where Dr Francia, the first president of Paraguay, lived.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Yagaron
Site / Event : House of Dr Francia
|
 |
Carved wooden window.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Yagaron
Site / Event : House of Dr Francia
|
 |
Colonial furniture in the interior.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Caacupe
Site / Event : Basilica of the Virgin
|
 |
Caacupe is a pilgrimage town dominated by the Basilica of the Virgin of Caacupe.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Caacupe
Site / Event : Basilica of the Virgin
|
 |
The Basilica resembles an Orthodox church.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Caacupe
Site / Event : Basilica of the Virgin
|
 |
The inner shrine.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Caacupe
|
 |
The town has food stalls for pilgrims.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Caacupe
|
 |
Grilled chickens.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Tobati
|
 |
Tobati is a village in a hilly part of the country.
|
1998 |
were added from 1 February 2025.