Trips to Paraguay

Well-known also like Mountain Villa, Caacupé or “Villa of the Miracles” it is surrounded by hills, streams and a prodigious vegetation.

The city is like a case that keeps a precious jewel: the Virgin of the Miracles, until which pilgrims arrive from all the country. In buses, automobiles, carts, to horse or on foot, all the Paraguayans have gone, at least once in their lives, to visit the venerated Virgencita de Caacupé in search of consolation or to be thankful for granted thanks to him.

Brief history

By the end of century XVI, a Indian I talk, of office sculptor, went into in the mount and one was with a game of Mbayaes Indians, of who it managed to escape hiding itself after a heavy trunk. At the distressing moments that happened in their hiding place it asked the Virgin to leave with life of that one adventure.

Once it frees of all risk, and in gratefulness, it worked two images of the Virgin: the one, greatest one, destined to the Church of Tobatí, near the place, and other, smaller, for its particular devotion.

This smaller image is the Virgin of the Miracles who venerates in the city of Caacupé. According to the opinion of the critics of art in wood, the image is a creation of great artistic value and beauty. History has not picked up data of the greater image, than it assumes sacked by the Mbayaes.

In the 1603 Tapaicuá lake overflowed and flooded the valley of Pirayú devastating everything what was to its step. When backing down the waters, appeared floating a mysterious coffer that it contained the small image of the Virgin, an Immaculate one of hardly fifty centimeters.

After to have happened through several hands, the Virgencita had finally its Sanctuary, that was constructed in 1765, today turned into the Basilica of the Virgin of the Miracles of Caacupé, located in center of the city.

Each 8 of December the celebration of Santa Maria de Caacupé is celebrated and the pilgrims get by millares at the Sanctuary to demonstrate to their love and gratitude to the Mother of all, to the “Blue Virgin of Paraguay”.