Cities · Central · Greater Asunción and Lake Ypacaraí

Itá

In Itá, clay is still worked the way it was centuries ago: women potters build up jugs, cooking pots and animal figures from coils of clay, decorate them with natural pigments and fire them in wood-burning kilns. These workshops produced the work of Juana Marta Rodas and her daughter Julia Isídrez, who took Itá's black pottery to documenta in Kassel and the Venice Biennale. The town also has the Itá lagoon (officially Mártires de Acosta Ñu), steeped in legend, with a park and trail, and the parish church of San Blas.