Must-see
Asunción · Asunción (Distrito Capital)
Mercado 4 (Mercado Municipal N.º 4)
Asunción's biggest and most chaotic market: herbs for tereré, no-frills eateries, Guaraní and haggling in every aisle.
3 km2–3 hours
Editorial selection by Asunción City, with data checked in September 2026.
Asunción 9
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Asunción · Asunción (Distrito Capital)
Centro de Artes Visuales / Museo del Barro
The country's finest museum: Indigenous, folk and contemporary Paraguayan art under one roof.
9 km2–3 hours
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Asunción · Asunción (Distrito Capital)
Villa Morra, Paseo Carmelitas y el eje Aviadores del Chaco
Modern Asunción: restaurants, bars, malls and hotels along tree-lined avenues.
7 kmHalf a day
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Asunción · Asunción (Distrito Capital)
Barrio Loma San Jerónimo
Asunción's first official tourist neighborhood: colorful little houses, stairways, murals and home cooking on a hill by the river.
2 km2–3 hours
Asunción · Asunción (Distrito Capital)
Plaza de los Héroes y calle Palma (centro histórico)
The main square and downtown's shopping street: handicrafts, a Saturday street fair and buildings that tell a century of stories.
Half a day
Asunción · Asunción (Distrito Capital)
Cabildo – Centro Cultural de la República y Palacio Legislativo
The old neoclassical town hall, now a free museum of art, music and history facing the bay.
1–2 hours
Asunción · Asunción (Distrito Capital)
Centro Cultural de la Ciudad Manzana de la Rivera y Casa Viola
An entire block of historic houses facing the Palace, including Casa Viola, the oldest in Asunción.
1 km1–2 hours
Asunción · Asunción (Distrito Capital)
Museo de Arte Sacro (Fundación Nicolás Darío Latourrette Bo)
17th- and 18th-century Hispano-Guaraní Baroque carvings in an elegant early-20th-century mansion.
1 km1–2 hours
Asunción · Asunción (Distrito Capital)
Museo Etnográfico Dr. Andrés Barbero
The country's most important archaeological and ethnographic collections, in a free and little-known museum.
1 km1 hour
Gran Asunción 6
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Areguá · Central
Areguá
Capital of pottery and strawberries, with historic mansions stepping down from the church to the lake.
29 km1 day
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Itauguá · Central
Itauguá
The capital of ñandutí: handmade 'spiderweb' lace, sold right along Route PY02.
34 km2-3 hours
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Itá · Central
Itá
One of the oldest towns in the country and a capital of pottery, with a clay tradition recognized by UNESCO.
37 kmHalf a day
Luque · Central
Luque
Capital of gold and silver filigree and birthplace of guitar and harp makers, minutes from the airport.
16 kmHalf a day
Limpio · Central
Limpio
Karanda'y palm hats, a church with colonial roots and lagoons of giant water lilies beside the Paraguay River.
23 kmHalf a day
Mariano Roque Alonso · Central
Expo Mariano Roque Alonso (predio de la Asociación Rural del Paraguay)
Every July, the country's biggest fair: show cattle, Paraguayan industry, food and entertainment.
14 kmHalf a day
Cordillera 8
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Tobatí · Cordillera
Tobatí
Paraguay's craft capital: potters, carvers of saints and sandstone hills with a natural stone arch.
74 kmHalf a day
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Piribebuy · Cordillera
Piribebuy
Heroic town of 1869 and home of the 60-stripe poncho para'i, recognized by UNESCO as intangible heritage.
73 km1 day
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Yaguarón · Paraguarí
Templo de San Buenaventura de Yaguarón
A jewel of Guaraní Baroque: 18th-century altarpieces and a candidate for UNESCO World Heritage status.
48 km2–3 hours
Atyrá · Cordillera
Atyrá
Billed as Paraguay's cleanest town: leatherworkers, Franciscan altarpieces and country inns in the Cordillera de los Altos.
61 kmHalf a day
Altos · Cordillera
Altos
The 'nation's terrace': a Franciscan town with German heritage, timbó wood carvings and the Kamba Ra'anga masked festival.
60 kmHalf a day
Emboscada · Cordillera
Emboscada
A town of stone and Afro-Paraguayan heritage, where feathered Guaikurú dancers honor San Francisco Solano every July.
39 km2–3 hours
Carapeguá · Paraguarí
Carapeguá
Capital of poyvi: loom-woven blankets, hammocks and ponchos on the banks of the Caañabé stream.
80 km2–3 hours
Quiindy · Paraguarí
Quiindy
The ball capital: whole families hand-stitch balls for football, volleyball, rugby and pikivóley.
109 km2–3 hours
Misiones 5
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Encarnación · Itapúa
Encarnación
The Pearl of the South: riverfront promenade, river beaches, carnival and the perfect base for the Jesuit missions.
365 km2-3 days
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San Ignacio · Misiones
Tañarandy y la procesión de Viernes Santo (Yvága Rape)
Paraguay's most beautiful Good Friday: thousands of candles, traditional Passion chants and a living altarpiece.
225 km2-3 hours
Encarnación · Itapúa
Puente Internacional San Roque González de Santa Cruz
Two and a half kilometers of bridge, train included, to cross the Paraná to Posadas.
372 km2-3 hours
Santa María · Misiones
Santa María de Fe
A peaceful Jesuit town with a Baroque museum, embroidery artisans and howler monkeys in the plaza.
230 kmHalf a day
San Miguel · Misiones
San Miguel, Capital de la Lana
Hand-woven wool ponchos, blankets and sweaters, sold right on Route PY01.
178 km2-3 hours
Este 4
Must-see
Ciudad del Este · Alto Paraná
Ciudad del Este
The great shop window of the Triple Frontier: shopping, a cosmopolitan buzz and the gateway to Itaipú and the Monday Falls.
327 km1 day
Santa Rita · Alto Paraná
Santa Rita
The Brazilian-Paraguayan heart of soybean country: chimarrão, gaúcho barbecue, a tunnel of trees and a big agricultural Expo.
340 km1 day
Salto del Guairá · Canindeyú
Salto del Guairá
Capital of Canindeyú and of northern border shopping, with the memory of the waterfalls lost in 1982.
407 km1 day
Caaguazú · Caaguazú
Caaguazú
The capital of wood: furniture workshops along the highway, the spring where the town was founded and a dinosaur park.
180 kmHalf a day
Guairá 3
Yataity · Guairá
Yataity del Guairá
The cradle of ao po'i: a village where most families spin, weave and embroider cotton by hand.
164 kmHalf a day
Mbocayaty · Guairá
Mbocayaty del Guairá
Home of encaje ju lace, with an 1857 church, a municipal museum and Expo Guairá every October.
166 km2–3 hours
San Juan Nepomuceno · Caazapá
San Juan Nepomuceno
Caazapá's most populous town: shops, the Ykua Kurusu spring and a gateway to the Atlantic Forest.
250 kmHalf a day
Norte 3
Pedro Juan Caballero · Amambay
Pedro Juan Caballero
A dry border with Brazil: a single avenue separates two countries, three languages and plenty of shop windows.
457 km1 day
Horqueta · Concepción
Horqueta
Capital of ka'a he'ẽ (stevia) and fine leatherwork: saddles, belts and beaches on the Aquidabán.
376 kmhalf a day
Bella Vista Norte · Amambay
Bella Vista Norte
Beaches on the Apa River facing Brazil, and an emerald 'ojo de mar' hidden in the woods.
470 km1 day
Chaco 2
Neuland · Boquerón
Neuland (distrito de Boquerón)
The youngest of the Mennonite colonies: a pioneer museum, preserved native forest and the gateway to Fortín Boquerón.
470 kmhalf a day
Mariscal Estigarribia (comunidad Santa Teresita) · Boquerón
Arete Guasu en Santa Teresita
The great festival of the Western Guaraní: masks, drums and circle dances that bring the living and their ancestors together at Carnival.
528 km1 day