Plaza de los Heroes

1. Pantheon (where national heroes are buried)

2. craft shops in Plaza de los Heroes (outdoor stalls behind Pantheon)


[optional extension Towards Plaza Uruguaya
3. Overall (nice craft shop) 25 de mayo 370, near junction with Iturbe

4. Plaza Uruguaya (big square with bookshops in it, beware of thieves and prostitutes)

5. Railway station / Estación de Ferrocarril (old choo-choo trains)
ring bell round corner in Rio Acaray to get in, Mon-Fri 7-18.00

6. Café Literario (very nice café for a fruit juice)
Mariscal Estigarribia 456, Sun-Thurs 16.00-24.00, Fri-Sat 16.00-02.00 end of optional extension]


Plaza de la Independencia

7. Catedral (nothing worth seeing inside)

8. Statue of Juan de Salazar with sword (founder of Asunción, 15 August 1537)

9. Monument to Marzo Paraguayo (student martyrs of 1999, demonstrating for democracy)

10. Cabildo (former Senate building, now a pleasant museum)
Mon-Fri 9.00-19.00 (March to December, other months -17.00), Sat-Sun 10.00-17.00

11. View over Bañado from first floor (slums of the poor, sometimes flooded by the river)

12. Statue of Mariscal Lopez (who led Paraguay into war and destroyed the nation, regarded as hero)

13. Parliament (new building paid for by Government of Taiwan) Mon-Fri 7.00-12.30, free

[optional extension Around the shopping street Palma
14. Palacio Lopez, also known as Palacio de Gobierno (grandiose design by Mariscal Lopez, now government offices) no visits inside

15. Manzana de la Rivera (nice small museum of history and art, also known as Casa Viola)
Mon-Fri 7.00-21.00, Sat 8.00-18.00, Sun 9.00-18.00 end of optional extension]

16. Casa de la Independencia (where independence was planned, colonial house/museum) on 14 de mayo at the corner of Presidente Franco
Mon-Fri 7-18.30, Sat 8-12

17. Turista Roga (tourist info and craft stalls, especially nice indigenous stall) Palma 468