Jesuit missions
In Paraguay exist remnants of 8 larger Jesuit missions, which were built herein 18th century to convert and govern the local Guarani people.
La Santísima Trinidad de Paraná - Itapúa. Ruins of the largest of the 8 historical Jesuit missions in Paraguay, a regional capital. This mission was built in 1706 and had a nice church with rich decoration and a complex of other buildings.
Mision de Jesús de Tavarangué - Itapúa. Ruins of Jesuit mission, moved to its present site circa 1690.
Santos Cosme y Damián Jesuit mission - Itapúa. Ruins of an unfinished church and several more buildings of Jesuitic mission, which was moved to the present location in 1740. Church is in current use.