Must-see
Areguá · Central
Areguá
Capital of pottery and strawberries, with historic mansions stepping down from the church to the lake.
29 km1 day
Editorial selection by Asunción City, with data checked in September 2026.
Gran Asunción 31
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Areguá · Central
Monumento Natural Cerros Kõi y Chororĩ
Five- and six-sided sandstone columns: a geological rarity with few equals anywhere in the world.
30 km2-3 hours
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Areguá, San Bernardino e Ypacaraí · Central y Cordillera
Lago Ypacaraí
The lake behind Paraguay's most famous guarania: sunsets, sailboats and historic towns along its shores.
29 kmHalf a day
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San Bernardino · Cordillera
San Bernardino
An 1881 German colony on the shores of Ypacaraí and Paraguay's summer capital: lakeside promenade, bars and long nights.
53 km2-3 days
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Luque · Central
Museo del Fútbol Sudamericano (Museo CONMEBOL)
The home of South American football: trophies, championship jerseys and interactive exhibits, with free entry.
14 km2-3 hours
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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
Ypacaraí · Central
Ypacaraí
The town that gave the lake its name and home of the Lake Festival, Paraguay's great showcase of folk culture.
41 km2-3 hours
Luque · Central
Luque
Capital of gold and silver filigree and birthplace of guitar and harp makers, minutes from the airport.
16 kmHalf a day
Luque · Central
Parque Ñu Guasu
The big green lung between Asunción and the airport, with a 5 km loop for walking and running.
11 km2-3 hours
Capiatá · Central
Capiatá
A colonial-era church dedicated to Our Lady of Candelaria and a museum of Guarani myths, right on Route PY02.
23 km2-3 hours
Capiatá · Central
Museo Mitológico Ramón Elías
The Pombero, the Kurupi and the Luisõ turned into sculpture: Guarani mythology as imagined by Ramón Elías.
23 km2-3 hours
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
Lambaré · Central
Lambaré
Asunción's neighbor at the foot of Cerro Lambaré, home to the legend of a Guarani chief and the much-loved burreritas.
10 km2-3 hours
Villeta · Central
Villeta
A colonial port on the Paraguay River, scene of the December 1868 campaign, with a brand-new riverside promenade.
36 kmHalf a day
Ypané · Central
Ypané
A former Franciscan mission town on the Paraguay River, with the great monument to the Battle of Ytororó.
29 km2-3 hours
Guarambaré · Central
Guarambaré
A sugarcane town with 19th-century mansions and a mill that exports organic sugar.
33 km2-3 hours
San Lorenzo · Central
Catedral de San Lorenzo
Paraguay's only neo-Gothic cathedral, built between 1919 and 1968, keeper of a clock from the 1850s.
13 km30 to 45 minutes
Ñemby · Central
Ñemby
A colonial chapel from 1718, an extinct volcano with an emerald lagoon, and the Holy Week estacioneros.
15 km2 to 3 hours
Ñemby · Central
Cerro Ñemby y su laguna esmeralda
An extinct volcano some 45 million years old, turned by a quarry into a green-water lagoon.
17 km2 to 3 hours
Villa Elisa · Central
Villa Elisa
A colony founded in 1899, the only one in the country settled by Swedes, Belgians, Danes and Germans.
16 km1 to 2 hours
San Antonio · Central
San Antonio y su Paseo Costero
A military outpost from 1672 on the Paraguay River, with a waterfront promenade opened in September 2025.
20 km2 hours
Itauguá · Central
Cerro Patiño (Ybytypané)
Itauguá's highest point, about 247 m, with forest tied to the Lake Ypacaraí ecosystem.
32 kmHalf a day
Itauguá · Central
Iglesia de la Virgen del Rosario de Itauguá
A neoclassical church built between 1896 and 1908, in the heart of the ñandutí capital.
30 km30 minutes
Villeta · Central
Lomas Valentinas e Itá Ybaté
The fortified hills where, in December 1868, the decisive battle of the Pikysyry campaign was fought.
45 km1 to 2 hours
Luque · Central
Santuario de la Virgen del Rosario de Luque
A neoclassical church built between 1928 and 1939 over a 1750 chapel, today one of the country's major shrines.
18 km30 to 45 minutes
Fernando de la Mora · Central
Kamba Kua (comunidad afroparaguaya)
Descendants of Artigas's lancers have kept the drums and the feast of San Baltasar alive since 1820.
14 km2-3 hours
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
San Lorenzo · Central
San Lorenzo, la Ciudad Universitaria
A city founded in 1775 on a Jesuit estate, home to the UNA campus and a neo-Gothic cathedral unique in the country.
13 kmHalf a day
Fernando de la Mora · Central
Parque Ecológico de Fernando de la Mora
A small municipal park of about 2 hectares, with natural paths and capybaras, next to the Campo Grande stream.
8 km1 hour
Itauguá · Central
Museo Parroquial San Rafael
A parish museum from 1964 in a colonial house, with Franciscan and Jesuit sacred art, Chaco War objects and a ñandutí room.
30 km45 minutes to 1 hour
Cordillera 40
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Caacupé · Cordillera
Basílica de la Virgen de los Milagros de Caacupé
Paraguay's spiritual capital: a Marian basilica, the Virgin's spring and the country's largest pilgrimage.
54 km2–3 hours
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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
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Sapucai · Paraguarí
Sapucai
A railway town among the hills: British workshops from 1894, steam locomotives and the English technicians' houses.
88 kmHalf a day
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Ybycuí (Minas Cué) · Paraguarí
Parque Nacional Ybycuí
Atlantic Forest, cold-water falls and the ruins of the La Rosada iron foundry, from 1854.
150 km1 day
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La Colmena (compañía Isla Alta, límite con Borja, Guairá) · Paraguarí
Salto Cristal
A curtain of crystal-clear water over rock walls, hidden in the forest between Paraguarí and Guairá.
150 km1 day
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
Piribebuy (colonia Piraretã) · Cordillera
Salto Piraretã
A hidden waterfall in the Piraretã farming community, with a stream and fresh forest air.
85 kmHalf a day
Eusebio Ayala · Cordillera
Eusebio Ayala (Barrero Grande)
The republic of chipá: some fifty chipa bakeries and the memory of the child soldiers of Acosta Ñu.
72 km2–3 hours
Caraguatay · Cordillera
Parque Nacional Vapor Cué
An open-air naval museum: the ships the Paraguayan fleet scuttled in 1869 beside the Yhaguy River.
95 km2–3 hours
Valenzuela · Cordillera
Valenzuela
The pineapple town: a Franciscan church from 1783 with statues from the 1600s, and streams for cooling off.
107 kmHalf a day
Paraguarí · Paraguarí
Paraguarí
A town of hills and trains where Belgrano was stopped in 1811: lookouts, railway museums and rail bikes.
66 km1 day
Acahay · Paraguarí
Cerro Acahay (Monumento Natural Macizo Acahay)
An ancient volcanic complex visible from Asunción: trails, rock outcrops, caves and a crystal-clear stream on its slopes.
100 kmHalf a day
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
Caapucú · Paraguarí
Caapucú
A town of colonial houses and the Casa Stewart, with white-sand beaches on the Tebicuary River.
141 kmHalf a day
Quiindy (acceso por la compañía Niño–Tacuary) · Paraguarí
Lago Ypoá
A vast wetland of floating islands and lagoons, a little-explored Ramsar site south of Asunción.
135 km1 day
Yaguarón · Paraguarí
Cerro Yaguarón
A hill of about 250 m with a free viewpoint at the top, footprints attributed to Saint Thomas and local legends.
50 km1 to 2 hours
Ybycuí · Paraguarí
Fundición de Hierro La Rosada (Minas Cué)
The rebuilt ruins of the iron foundry from the era of Carlos Antonio López, destroyed in 1869.
125 km1 to 2 hours
Caacupé · Cordillera
Cerro Cristo Rey
A peak of about 300 m in the Cordillera de los Altos, on Route 2, with wide views and a reputation as an educational ecological reserve.
55 km2 to 3 hours
Atyrá / Tobatí · Cordillera
Chorro Karumbey (Karumbe Ykua)
A waterfall on the Karumbey stream, on the natural boundary between Atyrá and Tobatí, among Cordillera de los Altos hills.
62 km2 hours
Atyrá · Cordillera
Iglesia de San Francisco de Asís de Atyrá
A 1928 church that keeps an 18th-century altar and the Franciscan memory of the country's cleanest city.
61 km30 minutes
Itacurubí de la Cordillera · Cordillera
Itacurubí de la Cordillera
The "Garden of the Republic": a crystal-clear stream, stone springs and a natural park in the heart of Cordillera.
88 kmHalf a day
Piribebuy · Cordillera
Salto Amambay
One of the Piribebuy-area waterfalls, on the road to Itacurubí, alongside Piraretã and Siete Caídas.
80 km1 to 2 hours
Pirayú · Paraguarí
Pirayú, antigua Capilla Gayoso
A 1769 town with a church from 1761, a railway station with two towers and a waterfall tied to Elisa Lynch.
50 kmHalf a day
Piribebuy · Cordillera
Santuario Ñandejára Guasu de Piribebuy
Piribebuy's church from 1753, witness to the 1868 wartime capital and the battle of 12 August 1869.
73 km30 to 45 minutes
Escobar · Paraguarí
Escobar y su antigua estación ferroviaria
A railway town from 1901 with a historic Carlos Antonio López Railway station and a small museum.
78 km1 to 2 hours
Paraguarí · Paraguarí
Cerro Mbatoví
A ridge of the Cordillera de los Altos, a Municipal Interest Natural Reserve since 2007.
65 km2 hours
Quiindy · Paraguarí
Cerro Quiindy (Cerro Mbopi)
A mound of about 331 m, 7 km east of Quiindy, reached by a dirt road from Route 1.
109 km2 hours
Paraguarí · Paraguarí
Cerro Hũ (Cerro Negro)
One of the hills ringing Paraguarí, with a trail to the summit and a viewpoint, also called Cerro Negro.
66 km2 to 3 hours
Arroyos y Esteros · Cordillera
Arroyos y Esteros
The 'emerald of the hills': rivers, wetlands and the birthplace of Paraguay's organic sugar.
67 km1 day
La Colmena · Paraguarí
La Colmena
Birthplace of Japanese immigration to Paraguay: orchards, apiaries and a hill nicknamed 'Colmena Fuji'.
130 km1 day
Yaguarón · Paraguarí
Museo Histórico Dr. José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia
The 1770–1780 colonial house of the Francia family, turned into a free museum in 1968, next to the church.
48 km45 minutes
Paraguarí · Paraguarí
Campo de batalla de Paraguarí (Cerro Mba'e)
The setting of the 19 January 1811 clash that stopped Belgrano, a milestone of independence.
72 km1 hour
Tobatí (límite con Caacupé) · Cordillera
Cerro Kavajú
A hill with wind-eroded flanks and caves, declared a protected landscape in 2014 and suited to climbing.
60 km2 to 3 hours
Santa Elena · Cordillera
Santa Elena y el Túnel Verde
The "mandarin city", with a tunnel of trees more than 2 km long at the town entrance.
101 km1 to 2 hours
Isla Pucú · Cordillera
Isla Pucú y la batalla de Ka'aguy Juru
A Cordillera town where, in August 1869, around 1,200 soldiers covered López's retreat after Acosta Ñu.
84 km1 hour
Misiones 2
Alberdi · Ñeembucú
Alberdi, la «Venecia paraguaya», y la playa Punta Arena
A port on the Paraguay River facing Formosa, with a family beach and the Ypoá wetlands as backdrop.
144 kmHalf a day to 1 day
Villa Oliva · Ñeembucú
Villa Oliva y Puerto Paraíso, puerta de los humedales del Ypoá
A fishing village an hour from Villeta where boats outnumber houses and the Ypoá wetlands begin.
120 kmHalf a day to 1 day
Este 1
Coronel Oviedo · Caaguazú
Coronel Oviedo
The old Villa de Ajos, Paraguay's crossroads: Rosary festivities, its own orchestra and farms for unplugging.
132 kmHalf a day
Chaco 6
Villa Hayes · Presidente Hayes
Villa Hayes
The gateway to the Chaco, half an hour from Asunción, named after a president of the United States.
31 kmhalf a day
Villa Hayes / Mariano Roque Alonso · Presidente Hayes
Puente Remanso
The 1978 bridge over the Paraguay River linking Mariano Roque Alonso with Villa Hayes and opening the door to the Chaco.
20 km15 minutes
Asunción / Nueva Asunción (ex Chaco'i) · Presidente Hayes
Puente Héroes del Chaco
A cable-stayed bridge opened in 2024 between Asunción and Nueva Asunción, with a bike path and pedestrian walkway.
15 km30 minutes
Villa Hayes · Presidente Hayes
Embarcadero y mirador de Villa Hayes
A pier and promenade on the Paraguay River at the north end of the Villa Hayes waterfront, with 400 m² of rest area.
31 km1 hour
Villa Hayes · Presidente Hayes
Museo Histórico Salvador Garozzo Simón Bouvier
Villa Hayes municipal museum with about 3,000 pieces: Chaco flora and fauna, war objects, sacred art and founding documents.
31 km45 minutes
Villa Hayes / Limpio · Presidente Hayes
El Peñón del río Paraguay
A rocky rise on a small island in the Paraguay River, between Villa Hayes and Limpio, topped by a small castle.
36 km2 hours