Red sandstone walls
Around the square.
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San Ignacio Miní is the ruin of a town the Jesuits built for the Guaraní people, one of the best preserved of the missions they founded in a region now split between Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay. It was founded around 1610 in Guayrá, in today's southern Brazil, moved to escape slave-raiders, and settled on its present site in 1696, with about 3,000 inhabitants in the 18th century. The Jesuits left after their expulsion in 1767, the town was destroyed in 1817 during the wars, and the forest covered it until it was rediscovered in 1897. Today its red sandstone walls stand around a broad grassy square, with rows of family houses and the remains of large buildings carved in the style known as Guaraní Baroque. UNESCO listed it in 1984 with three other Argentine missions. One ticket is valid for 15 days at San Ignacio, Santa Ana, Loreto and Santa María la Mayor. It opens daily 07:30-18:00, and from Thursday to Sunday a sound and light show runs among the ruins at 19:30.
Around the square.
Carved details.
Thursday to Sunday.
San Ignacio, about 60 km north of Posadas, Misiones
Yes. It is valid for 15 days at San Ignacio, Santa Ana, Loreto and Santa María la Mayor.