Unfortunately we arrived late and were unable to explore the inside of the buildings.  It’s a shame as there were so many rooms, nookes and crannies and passageways, it would have made for an exciting little adventure but would have taken hours. Nonetheless, great to see such a beautiful building being so well maintained and preserved by the local authority and presumably the World Heritage Organisation.

According to our pamphlet, the Jesuit Block in Córdoba, is the heart of the former Jesuit Province of Paraguay and contains the core buildings of the Jesuit system: the university, the church and residence of the Society of Jesus, and the college. Along with the five estancias, or farming estates, they contain religious and secular buildings, which illustrate the unique religious, social, and economic experiment carried out in the world for a period of over 150 years in the 17th and 18th centuries.