Trips to Paraguay

Villarrica, capital of the department of the Guaira, originally was founded by the Spanish Ruiz Diaz de Melgarejo, in 1570, in present Brazilian territory. The history of the city tells that it had to be transferred in seven opportunities by the harassment of the Portuguese bandeirantes that they looked for to enslave guaraníes for his plantations.

This colorful city is surrounded by hills of little altitude in the middle of the Mountainous area of the Ybytyrusu, whose lifted tip but is the Three hill Kandu (842 mts).

Owner of a very special enchantment, Villarrica owns an important cultural wealth recognized in her musicians and poets, and great attractive an architectonic one.

Places to visit

The church of Our Lady of Asuncio'n de Ybaroty; the Fermín Museum Lopez who picks up history of Villarrica with objects and documents; the park Manuel Ortiz Guerrero and its beautiful Ycua Pyta (red lagoon); the Cathedral; its monuments like a peculiar wood sculpture that represents a Butterfly (Panambi in guaraní); its old large houses; the old station of trains.
He is characteristic of Villarrica a stroll in carumbé, small car thrown by horses.

Celebrations

- During the Carnival, the traditional guaireños privateerings fill the streets of color, beauty and joy every February.

- The festival of the beer during the first fortnight of November (Oktoberfest) in the near Colony Independence, founded and populated by colonists German with the zone with Bavaria.

- The Festival of the Race during the second variable fortnight of October with recitales of ARPA, guitar and dance of the best Paraguayan artists.

A station of Tapé Avirú

Tapé Avirú, old pre-Hispanic way of the Guaraníes, is at the moment one of the more exciting tourist destinies of the guaraní world. This it is the mystical way followed by the ancestral inhabitants of Paraguay in the search of the Yvy Marae' and or Earth without Evil.

A station of Tapé Avirú is the place known like Itá Letter, a mysterious place in the mountainous area of Ybytyruzú. One is a wall of rock of considerable height where are mysterious engravings signs, perhaps maps or planes. Many speculations have become on the matter: some investigators ventured themselves to say that the inscriptions were recorded by the vikingos in their passage by Paraguay. Others maintain, nevertheless, that the place was formerly a spiritual center and of deliberations of the guaraní town.

Itá Letter is readily accessible and it is in a place of great beauty next to the Tororó stream, to the entrance of the Ybytyruzu, 18 kilometers of Villarrica, by dirt road.