Travel Reference
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Jesuit Missions Circuit
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Though traveling around the missions circuit (
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) is a challenge in itself, the
fantastically ornate reconstructions of Jesuit churches that are the centerpieces of the
villages along the route make it well worth the effort. Lovingly restored by professional ar-
tisans and historians to offer a glimpse of their former glory, the churches of the missions
circuit are testimony to the efforts of the missionaries who, against all odds, managed to es-
tablish communities in remote Chiquitania before being expelled from the Spanish colonies
in 1767.
Art at San Javier
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