Rooms
Office room
Important documents from this period, signed by various patriots of the Paraguayan independence are kept in this room. It is also exhibited a bureau which belonged to Fernando de la Mora and five pictures, among which it is highlighted one representing a key moment in the independence, the intimidation to Governor Velazco, painted by Jaime Bestard.
Dining room
Furniture and objects in common use recreate a domestic inside of the colonial period. A sword which belonged to Fulgencio Yegros is exhibited in one of the windows, as well as it is highlighted a portrait of Doctor Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia.
Living room
A suite of French furnitute from 1830 is exhibited around a crystal chandelier and a brazier made of wood and bronze.Two full-length portraits of Pedro Juan Caballero and Fulgencio Yegros can also be seen. Religious carvings made in Jesuits and Franciscan workshops complete the room.
Bedroom
A bed which belonged to Fernando de la Mora stood out the room and his portrait can be seen on the right walls. Below the picture, there is an embroidered shirt worn by him. A large chest used by Juan Bautista Rivarola, a peculiar toilet, a magnificent prie-dieu and a polychrome niche complete the atmosphere of the room.
Oratory
Jesuits and Franciscan carvings and diverse religious objects of different origin are exhibited in this room. A portrait of the presbyter Francisco Javier Bogarín can also be seen.
Corridor
Two large boards carved in wood from door churches in the missions are stood out in the adjacent corridor. Below them, there are the remains of the disappeared eaves of the house, which give us an idea about the measurements and characteristics of the materials used in constructions during the colonial period.
Yard
A mural painted by José Laterza Parodi is highlighted in this place. There can be read diverse paragraphs of the note of 20 July 1811, addressed to the Junta in Buenos Aires, in which was ratified the independence of Paraguay. Below the note, it is reproduced the first coat of arms of the nation adopted during the government of Doctor Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia. At the foot of it there is the sundial of the Jesuit mission of Santa Rosa. A tumulus covering the mortal remains of the illustrious patriot Juan Bautista Rivarola Matto and brought from the Barrero Grande cemetery, nowadays Eusebio Ayala can be seen in one of the yard corners.
Capitulary Saloon
Crossing the yard, there is a place where is a replica of the Capitulary Saloon of the old Cabildo de Asunción, the first in the Río de la Plata, established on September 16, 1541. In the center of the room, there is the coat of arms of Spain from 1800. On the walls hang a magnificent portrait of the Emperor Charles V; besides, other pictures show several revolutionary intents, previous to the independence.
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And block the ends of streets with giant loaves,
Screen graves with custard, cover slums with praise
Of motor-oil and cuts of salmon, shine
Perpetually these sharply-pictured groves
Of how life should be.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
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—Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)
“Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and autonomy. We do our best to make our children independent from birth. We leave them all alone in rooms with the lights out and tell them, “Go to sleep by yourselves.” And the old people we respect most are the ones who will fight for their independence, who would sooner starve to death than ask for help.”
—Margaret Mead (1901–1978)