Casa de la Independencia Museum
Colonial adobe house where Paraguay's independence was plotted in May 1811, now a history museum.
The house was built about 1772 for a Spanish settler family and is one of the very few colonial dwellings left standing in Asunción, with thick adobe walls, a tiled roof and a long veranda around a courtyard. On the night of 14 to 15 May 1811 the conspirators who ended Spanish rule in Paraguay met in its rooms; a narrow passage from the house to the street, still shown to visitors, allowed them to reach the barracks unseen. The date is marked in the name of the street outside.
The building was declared a national monument and opened as a museum in the 1960s, and its collections were restored in 2003. Nine rooms hold period furniture, religious images, weapons, coins, documents and personal belongings of the independence leaders, among them Fulgencio Yegros, Pedro Juan Caballero and Vicente Ignacio Iturbe, with portraits and the family oratory. The museum also keeps a research library, and its staff promote the nearby collection of Jesuit-Guaraní sacred art.
Highlights
- One of the last colonial adobe houses left in Asunción
- The passage used by the conspirators on 14 May 1811
- Furniture, weapons and documents of the independence leaders
- Family oratory and courtyard veranda
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