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Asuncion Places of Interest



Come to Asuncion and experience the feel of being in the Mother of Cities. Yes, this is what this historical city is known as and has around a million citizens living here today. With the serene ambience and the loveliest travel pleasures, Asuncion is that Latin beauty that has to be seen to be experienced. With great shopping fares and some fascinating historical locales, the city of Asuncion boasts of a kind of travel experience that makes the tourist come here for more. Go to the top of the Guarani Hotel and get the best view of the entire city of Asuncion and get lost in this paradise in this part of the world.

Asuncion attractions Paraguay

Asuncion is the place where you would find the Palacio del Gobierno constructed on lines of the Louvre in Paris. This is also the place where you would have the Plaza de los Heroes which features the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Get the best travel leisure here and come back with enchanting memories of this lovely land.

Go to the Botanical Gardens and enjoy seeing the best species of around hundred varieties of tropical trees and plants. Here is where you would get an interesting collection of insects and this is the ideal way you can get to see the best in the museum here. Then you can go on a lovely cruise in the River Paraguay and get enthralled by the relaxing boat cruise which goes on for around three hours.

Botanical Gardens

Today Asuncion has a lot of parks, beautiful lanes and lovely bays on the River Paraguay. The city offers the best kind of travel pleasures and the population here is increasing by the day as also the tourists.

Come here and enjoy the sights of the Cathedral, the Port and the Palace of Govenment and also the innumerable museums which so form a part of this city. The Bellas Artes Museum and the House of Independence are added attractions.

There is the Pantheon of Heroes which has been built in the year 1863 and is the mausoleum for the heroes of Independence. Then you have the Manzana de la Rivera which is a great complex of around eight buildings which gives a great impression of the architectural elegance of this city. The 18th and the 19th century constructions here lend pleasure to the eye and the entire zone is today a cultural hub and also a centre for great recreation and art. The exhibitions here are a great attraction and tourists love to come and explore their artistic interests.

Manzana de la Rivera

Then you have the Museum Memoria de la Ciudad which is situated in the House of Viola and is one of the oldest in the Manzana de la Ribera complex.

The Asuncion people really known how to have a great night out. So get engrossed in this land of restaurants and nightlife facilities and enjoy the experience of this thrill in an Asuncion visit.

Sometimes if you find the heat here unbearable then go to the Lake Ypacarai and enjoy a swim here.

Lake Ypacarai

Guarani is a language unique to Asuncion and the locals speak this language here. come to the biggest cosmopolitan in this part of the world and enjoy learning the Guaranai language much to your amusement.

Then of course you have the shady café and the terere which is so much a part of Asuncion beverages. This iced herbal tea is the best way you could unwind on a hot day.

Iced herbal tea

Visit Asuncion and enjoy the pleasures of being in a small paradise in this part of the world.

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