Panteon de los Heroes description and photos - Paraguay: Asuncion (Topic)

Panteon de los Heroes description and photos - Paraguay: Asuncion. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photographs and a map showing the nearest significant objects. The title in English is Panteon de los Heroes.

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One of the most important historical monuments of the capital of Paraguay, which is visited by all tourists and official delegations arriving in this country, is the Pantheon of Heroes, reminiscent of the Parisian Invalides.

The history of this snow-white building with austere antique porticoes and a high dome begins in 1863, when Francisco Solano Lopez, who headed Paraguay at that time, ordered the construction of a temple of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. The construction was entrusted to the Italian master Alejandro Ravizzi, who was assisted by the local architect Giacomo Colombino. Due to the outbreak of the Paraguayan War, the construction of the temple was frozen and resumed only 70 years later. Only in 1936 the temple was completed. Almost immediately after its opening, the President of Paraguay renamed it the National Pantheon of Heroes. where outstanding commanders and ordinary soldiers who gave their lives for the country's independence were supposed to rest in peace.

At the request of the hierarchs of the church and local believers, the President of Paraguay was forced to allocate one room for the chapel of the Virgin Mary, considered the patroness of the country.

In 2009, when Asuncion was chosen as the American Capital of Culture, the Pantheon of Heroes became one of the seven cultural monuments of the city, which were identified by foreign experts.

Weekly, Saturday mornings clock, near the Pantheon of Heroes, a solemn ceremony of changing the guard takes place, to see which many guests of the city and the inhabitants of Asuncion gather.

And on March 1, Heroes Day, the entire ruling elite of the country gathers at the Pantheon, to honor the memory of the heroes buried here.

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