Qualla: Yaguarón https://qualla.com/yaguaron 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/r/q/yaguaron-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Yaguarón https://qualla.com/yaguaron Yaguarón: Introduction https://qualla.com/yaguaron/ Photo credit Ulises Icardi, CC BY-SA 4.0. From the road, the church gives nothing away. A long, low building under a single sweep of tiled roof, its walls washed plain white, fronted by a wooden colonnade and a separate bell tower. Then you step inside, and the austerity detonates into gold. Every surface seems to glow with carved and gilded wood: saints, angels, vines, and flowers climbing toward the ceiling in a riot of color and leaf. This is the Templo de San Buenaventura in Yaguarón, a town of some 27,000 people at the foot of its namesake hill, and it is one of the finest works of colonial art in South America.

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/e/r/q/yaguaron-wp/6erq-yaguar-n-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Yaguarón: The Reduction at the Hill's Foot https://qualla.com/yaguaron/ Photo credit Greg Schechter from San Francisco, USA, CC BY 2.0. Yaguarón began not as a town but as a mission. In the 1580s, the Franciscan friar Luis de Bolaños established a reducción here, one of the settlements where the order gathered Guaraní communities, drawing in people from the surrounding region. Together with neighboring missions a...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/e/r/q/yaguaron-wp/6erq-yaguar-n-the-reduction-at-the-hills-foot.mp3 0:06 2 full Yaguarón: Sixty Years of Gold https://qualla.com/yaguaron/ Photo credit Greg Schechter from San Francisco, USA, CC BY 2.0. The church that stands today rose between roughly 1755 and 1772, a generation-long labor of Franciscan friars and Guaraní artisans. Its soaring main altarpiece, a masterwork of colonial Paraguayan baroque, was directed by the Portuguese woodcarver José de Souza Cavadas, working a...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/e/r/q/yaguaron-wp/6erq-yaguar-n-sixty-years-of-gold.mp3 0:06 3 full Yaguarón: El Supremo's Birthplace https://qualla.com/yaguaron/ Photo credit Cmasi, CC BY-SA 3.0. Yaguarón gave Paraguay one of its most consequential and forbidding figures. On January 6, 1766, José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia was born here, the son of a tobacco planter and former artillery officer. He would become the nation's first ruler after independence, holding power f...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/e/r/q/yaguaron-wp/6erq-yaguar-n-el-supremos-birthplace.mp3 0:06 4 full Yaguarón: Legends on the Hill https://qualla.com/yaguaron/ Photo credit Ulises Icardi, CC BY-SA 4.0. Above the town rises Yaguarón Hill, and the climb rewards you with an oratory and a long view: on a clear day the towns of Pirayú, Itá, Paraguarí, and Carapeguá spread across the plain below. The hill carries old stories. Local legend holds that Saint Thomas, remembered here as P...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/e/r/q/yaguaron-wp/6erq-yaguar-n-legends-on-the-hill.mp3 0:06 5 full Yaguarón: Dogs and Drums https://qualla.com/yaguaron/ Photo credit Hugo Diaz Lavigne, Public domain. Yaguarón keeps its traditions close. Each August 16, the town celebrates the feast of Saint Roque, the saint honored as a protector of dogs, fittingly so in a place whose name conjures a great hound, and the celebration features offerings shaped like dogs. The musical life runs d...

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