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Dish · San Juan Bautista
Batiburrillo
Stew of chopped offal, such as liver, heart, kidney, tongue and tripe, seasoned with onion, bell pepper, garlic, pepper and red wine.
Missões · Paraguay Capital
San Juan Bautista
In the destination San Juan Bautista and the Missions of Misiones.
In the photo: Cathedral of San Juan Bautista in the town center.
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The city
What to expect from San Juan Bautista.
Capital of the Misiones department, on the PY01, 196 km from Asunción. It is the birthplace of guitarist Agustín Pío Barrios, Mangoré, and the house where he spent his childhood preserves family and period objects. In the center, the cathedral faces Plaza Mariscal Estigarribia, surrounded by old houses with galleries. It is the town of the batiburrillo and the base for visiting the Jesuit museums of San Ignacio Guazú and Santa María de Fe.
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Historic house
Casa de Mangoré
Old house where Agustín Pío Barrios, Mangoré, spent his childhood and took his first steps in music. Restored by a local visual artist, it welcomes visitors and preserves objects from the Barrios family and that era.
Church
Cathedral of San Juan Bautista
The town’s main church, dedicated to Saint John the Baptist and seat of the diocese created in 1957. It stands in front of Plaza Mariscal Estigarribia, the central square, surrounded by old houses with columned galleries.
Museum
Diocesan Museum of Jesuit Art of San Ignacio Guazú
Museum of art of the reductions housed in what remains of the old Jesuit college of San Ignacio Guazú, the first reduction of Paraguay, founded in 1609. It preserves polychrome wooden images carved by the Guaraní.
Museum
Diocesan Museum of Jesuit Art of Santa María de Fe
Museum in an old 17th-century indigenous house next to the church of Santa María de Fe, a reducción founded in 1647. It houses dozens of Baroque images that formed the altar of the former temple.