Paraguay: South America’s undiscovered tourist destination
Santa Maria De Fe is a very interesting town in the south of Paraguay. In this region of South America there are many towns that started off as Jesuit missions. Santa Maria De Fe is one of these, however, nowadays most of these towns have been modernised to some extent. That is to say that if you go there you will see the Jesuit influence in the layout of the town with the church and town square at the centre and residential areas off to the sides but most now have modern buildings, roads and advertisements around them. Santa Maria De Fe however has resisted this king of development in favour of constructing buildings in keeping with the Jesuit style. It still has the original style cobbled streets which many towns have now replaced with asphalt and there are no billboards with modern advertising on display. The result is that visiting Santa Maria De Fe is like stepping back in time. It is a far cry from the Red Diesel Bristol countryside in the UK for example. So if you are visiting Paraguay it really is worth a visit especially if you are interested in the Jesuit heritage of the country.
The town has been growing in popularity in recent years as the entrepreneurial residents have actively tried to preserve its heritage and promote it as a tourist destination. As well as the preserving landscape they have opened a hotel and a museum and many of the ladies work produce traditional embroidery to sell to the tourists. So what was once a traditional craft passed on from mother to daughter, is now an thriving business with international clientele as they sell they products not just to visitors but also online to people all over the world.
Tourism is really in it’s infancy in Paraguay but this is about to change as in 2010 the first ever dedicated guidebook was written about the country. So where in the past people would skip out Paraguay from their itinerary due to lack of information, now a whole new treasure trove of undiscovered and comparatively untouched territory is available and easily accessible to visitors.
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