| Country |
Details |
Photo |
Description |
Year
Taken |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Tobati
|
 |
Tobati is dotted with wood fired kilns.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Tobati
|
 |
The red brick kilns are famous for making building materials.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Tobati
|
 |
Building materials stacked up outside the kiln where they were fired.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Tobati
|
 |
Curved roof tiles.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Tobati
|
 |
Kiln worker.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Tobati
|
 |
One of many red brick wood burning kilns with multiple brick chimneys.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Tobati
|
 |
Roof tiles and bricks manufactured in Tobati and used all over Paraguay.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Tobati
|
 |
The town is very rural and spread out.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Tobati
|
 |
The area has many rocky outcrops.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Tobati
|
 |
A Catholic shrine at the foot of a cliff.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Tobati
|
 |
A hilltop Guarani shrine.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Tobati
|
 |
Brick kilns on both sides of the main road.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Tobati
|
 |
Kiln workers collecting wood.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Tobati
|
 |
Wood fired oven.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Tobati
|
 |
Ceramic masks.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Tobati
|
 |
Guarani figures.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Trinidad
Site / Event : Trinidad Mission
|
 |
Trinidad was one of the missions founded by the Jesuits to protect the Guarani from slavery.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Trinidad
Site / Event : Trinidad Mission
|
 |
The Spanish King, Carlos III, ordered the expulsion of the Jesuits in 1767 and the missions were looted and abandoned.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Trinidad
Site / Event : Trinidad Mission
|
 |
Trinidad Mission was founded in 1707 and once had a population of 4000.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Trinidad
Site / Event : Trinidad Mission
|
 |
Houses for the Guarani who studied Christianity, music, the Guarani language, masonary and smithing.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Trinidad
Site / Event : Trinidad Mission
|
 |
The Guarani residents of these houses were taken into slavery when the missions were dissolved.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Trinidad
Site / Event : Trinidad Mission
|
 |
The buildings have fine brickwork.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Trinidad
Site / Event : Trinidad Mission
|
 |
Ruins of a church. The pillars are on the outside in typical Guarani style.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Trinidad
Site / Event : Trinidad Mission
|
 |
Detail of a carved column.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Trinidad
Site / Event : Trinidad Mission
|
 |
The missions were like small towns and were self contained.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Trinidad
Site / Event : Trinidad Mission
|
 |
Square bell tower.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Trinidad
Site / Event : Trinidad Mission
|
 |
The main church dominates the complex.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Trinidad
Site / Event : Trinidad Mission
|
 |
The interior of the main church.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Trinidad
Site / Event : Trinidad Mission
|
 |
The Guarani stonework is very elaborate.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Trinidad
Site / Event : Trinidad Mission
|
 |
Combination of brickwork and carving.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Trinidad
Site / Event : Trinidad Mission
|
 |
Carved doorway.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Trinidad
Site / Event : Trinidad Mission
|
 |
Carved stone window.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Trinidad
Site / Event : Trinidad Mission
|
 |
Detail of Guarani stone carving.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Trinidad
Site / Event : Trinidad Mission
|
 |
Carved doorway on the exterior of the main church.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Trinidad
Site / Event : Trinidad Mission
|
 |
Detail of the coat of arms above the entrance to the main church.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Trinidad
Site / Event : Trinidad Mission
|
 |
One of many statues on the site.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Trinidad
Site / Event : Trinidad Mission
|
 |
The carved pulpit of the main church.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Trinidad
Site / Event : Trinidad Mission
|
 |
Carved plants and flowers.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Trinidad
Site / Event : Trinidad Mission
|
 |
The Guarani were taught stone carving at the mission and they excelled.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Trinidad
Site / Event : Trinidad Mission
|
 |
Carvings of musical instruments which were made at the mission.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Trinidad
Site / Event : Trinidad Mission
|
 |
Original stone floor.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Trinidad
Site / Event : Trinidad Mission
|
 |
View over Trinidad Mission.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Trinidad
|
 |
The village of Trinidad is set is fertile countryside.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Trinidad
|
 |
Trinidad is a Guarani village.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Trinidad
|
 |
Typical wooden house.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Trinidad
|
 |
Rural scene.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Piribebuy
|
 |
Piribebuy was founded in 1640 and was briefly capital of Paraguay.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Piribebuy
|
 |
The distinctive ocre and white buildings of Piribebuy.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Piribebuy
Site / Event : Piribebuy Church
|
 |
The 18th century red tiled Piribebuy church.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Piribebuy
Site / Event : Piribebuy Church
|
 |
The distinctive rounded clocktower.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Piribebuy
Site / Event : Piribebuy Church
|
 |
The altar.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Piribebuy
|
 |
A well in the centre of the village.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Piribebuy
|
 |
View of Lake Ypacarai.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Jesus
|
 |
The village of Jesus.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Jesus
|
 |
Jesus has many wooden houses.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Jesus
|
 |
Family sitting on their porch.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Jesus
|
 |
The village church is built from red coloured bricks.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Jesus
|
 |
Housebuilding.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Jesus
|
 |
Children sitting outside a house.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Jesus
|
 |
Small shack.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Jesus
|
 |
The wooden houses of Jesus are brightly painted.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Jesus
|
 |
Green houses.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Jesus
|
 |
House surrounded by trees.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Jesus
|
 |
Farm house.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Jesus
|
 |
Guarani style house.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Jesus
|
 |
Jesus is surrounded by rolling hills.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Jesus
Site / Event : Jesus Mission
|
 |
Jesus is a Jesuit mission which was never completed.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Jesus
Site / Event : Jesus Mission
|
 |
Ruins of the main church.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Jesus
Site / Event : Jesus Mission
|
 |
Decorated doorway.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Jesus
Site / Event : Jesus Mission
|
 |
Stone carved niche.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Jesus
Site / Event : Jesus Mission
|
 |
The colonaded interior.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Jesus
Site / Event : Jesus Mission
|
 |
Decorated interior doorway.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Encarnacion
|
 |
Horse drawn taxi in the port city of Encarnacion.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Encarnacion
|
 |
Food seller.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Encarnacion
|
 |
The Rio Parana.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Encarnacion
|
 |
Bridge linking Paraguay and Argentina.
|
1998 |
| Paraguay |
City / Town : Encarnacion
|
 |
The Argentinian city of Posadas on the far side of the Rio Parana.
|
1998 |
were added from 1 February 2025.