Qualla: Santiago, Paraguay https://qualla.com/santiago-paraguay en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:39:58 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/6/e/p/t/santiago-paraguay-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Santiago, Paraguay https://qualla.com/santiago-paraguay Santiago, Paraguay: Introduction https://qualla.com/santiago-paraguay/ Photo credit Begadani, Public domain. Inside the parish church at Santiago stands the only complete Jesuit altarpiece left in all of Paraguay - and above it, carved in wood, Saint James rides into battle. The figure is an equestrian sculpture of Santiago Apóstol, the town's namesake, shaped by Guaraní hands under Jesuit direction more than two and a half centuries ago. Most of the mission that produced it is gone. The altarpiece and the horseman remain, and they are reason enough to climb the hill to this quiet town in southern Paraguay.

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/e/p/t/santiago-paraguay-wp/6ept-santiago-paraguay-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Santiago, Paraguay: A Town That Moved and Was Renamed https://qualla.com/santiago-paraguay/ Photo credit Begadani, Public domain. Santiago did not start where it stands, or even under its current name. It was first founded as San Ignacio de Caaguazú, then re-established in the Misiones Department in 1669 as Santiago Apóstol - Saint James the Apostle. Like its neighbors, it was a Jesuit reduction, one of the...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/e/p/t/santiago-paraguay-wp/6ept-santiago-paraguay-a-town-that-moved-and-was-renamed.mp3 0:06 2 full Santiago, Paraguay: The Guaraní Baroque in Wood https://qualla.com/santiago-paraguay/ Photo credit Begadani, Public domain. Santiago's collection is among the finest survivors of the Jesuit-Guaraní world. The Museo Diocesano de Arte Sacro Jesuítico Guaraní, set in an old Jesuit building with four exhibition rooms, holds baroque statues and the salvaged remnants of the original church. These carvings w...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/e/p/t/santiago-paraguay-wp/6ept-santiago-paraguay-the-guaran-baroque-in-wood.mp3 0:06 3 full Santiago, Paraguay: Hills, Forest, and the Tebicuary https://qualla.com/santiago-paraguay/ Photo credit Begadani, Public domain. Santiago sits on a hill between the towns of Ayolas and San Patricio, in a landscape of rolling country, dense forest, and grassland - the Paraguayan Chaco off to the west, the Paraná Plateau rising to the east. The Tebicuary River threads through the region, watering the farms a...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/e/p/t/santiago-paraguay-wp/6ept-santiago-paraguay-hills-forest-and-the-tebicuary.mp3 0:06 4 full Santiago, Paraguay: Life on the Square Today https://qualla.com/santiago-paraguay/ Photo credit Begadani, Public domain. About 7,700 people live in Santiago now, and the rhythms of a small mission town persist around its unusually large main plaza. During the holidays the community has staged the Opera of Santiago, an ambitious bit of local culture for a place this size. But the deepest pull is sti...

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