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La Boca
Ingreso a Caminito

 

 

 

Costanera de la Boca

 

 

 

Antiguo transbordador

 

 

 

Escuela Museo Pedro de Mendoza

 

 

 

El puente Avellaneda

 

 

 

Caminito

 

 

 

Museo de cera

 

 

 

Iglesia San Juan Bautista

 

 

 

La cancha de Boca Juniors - "La bombonera"
 
Typical neighborhood with marked port climate to influence of Italian immigration.
Traveled on foot of 2 hours, advisable of Wednesday to Sunday to visit the museums. Bus lines N° 152, 64 and 29 arrive until the Riachuelo. The restaurants are the characteristic taverns Italian style.
 

In automobile or in bus to arrive until Av. Almte. Brown corner Wenceslao Villafañe, where it begins the neighborhood of La Boca properly, to begin the walk on foot.

Before, have more than enough Av. Almte. Brown, to the right, the reconstruction of Casa Amarilla that was the marine's of Irish origin residence, creator from the Armed Argentina and hero of the naval battles against the empire of the Brazil. The reconstruction dates of 1983 and it harbors the Department of Naval Historical Studies and to the Institute Browniano. They surround the residence the lands of what the old station of loads of the railroad, the first one that existed in the country was. Today enormous monoblocks is built.

To the left of the avenue it exists, an enormous residential group, the monoblocks of South Catalinas. You still discusses if it was in La Boca where Pedro of Mendoza founded the city for the first time, but the riverbanks of the Riachuelo were surely the first port of the city. Although Juan of Garay took the city to a higher and healthier place, the port stayed here and already in the XVIII century they began to settle down the first port facilities. Toward final of that century, the first saladeros (big barrack for deposit of leathers and slaves' reception and grocery with great movement of sailors and merchants) they occupied both riverbanks of El Riachuelo, from the outlet until the Vuelta de Rocha.

In 1820 it registers the presence of Genoese and the first naval warehouses and navy arise. The current character of the neighborhood is due to the Italian, specially Genoese immigration, the one that never finished being assimilated to the great city. Their characteristic architecture is the houses of grooved foil, some colored ones, of alive colors; many constitute even populous conventillos where several families cohabit.

Also observe the high sidewalks (of up to 1 meter) to avoid the frequent floods taken place by the one feared "sudestada", wind that blows from that sector of the quadrant, causing the sudden grown deI River de la Plata.

To walk until Necochea and for this until Suárez, where will find the sector of the taverns, noisy restaurants where they eat up specialties of pasta, fish and shellfish, in frank decadence today in day, for very converged by groups in train of some celebration.

To visit the Square Solís, to the street left Necochea for street Suárez, where the picturesque architecture of the neighborhood is appreciated. Highlighted plastic artists of the city contributed with their designs to paint of cheerful colors and in the most varied forms the fronts of the housings on the square. In the corner of Olavarría and Ministro Brin, an old municipal market was recycled in small business center and gastronomic.

To continue for Necochea until finding the Riachuelo.

 
The Riachuelo
 

The Riachuelo and the gigantic silhouette of the Bridge Nicolás Avellaneda grove, built in 1939, to which you can ascend for long mechanical stairways and to travel for their two pedestrian gangplanks, enjoying panoramic views of el Riachuelo, of the port of Buenos Aires and of the Rio de la Plata.

Next to this bridge is the Bridge Ferry, built in 1908 and also called Avellaneda grove, today in disuse. Oar boats can be approached that cross to the other bank, advisable walk only if the emanations of the very polluted waters are tolerated.

In Av. Pedro de Mendoza to visit the School Museum Pedro de Mendoza.

From the wide windows it will be able to have a panoramic of the Vuelta de Rocha. Vuelta de Rocha.

It skirts it the Av. Pedro of Mendoza and on her old naval warehouses last. In the other margin barrack and navy are come.

Anchored next to the bank will be able to visit the Corvette Uruguay, historical ship that served as first ship school of the Armed Argentina, acquired to British navy in 1872 during the presidency of D.F. Sarmiento. It possesses an iron helmet, to move for antarctic seas. The ship that rescued the frustrated expedition to Otto's South Pole Nordenskjold in 1903 was.

In front of the Corvette, to take to the right down the street Quinquela Martin and to the right in the street Garibaldi, to which a train road divides lengthwise. It is discovered the most genuine image in the neighborhood there, with the foil houses crowding together the one on the other one and resisting at the time. At the end of the third block, to continue for street Araoz de Lamadrid, and from there to return to the Vuelta of Rocha through that that at some time was the bed of a small stream, the one that when being blinded you, transformed in deviation of the railroad it is the Caminito.

 
Caminito
 

When the trains stopped to pass in 1920, it became a landfill until a neighbor, Arturo Cárrega, solved to clean up the place. Quinquela put him the name Caminito in honor to the famous tango of Juan de Dios Filiberto and, also, when being nationalized the railroad in 1945, it negotiated so that the Municipality acquired it and became street of the city. To her they give the funds of the houses of the lateral streets. They are multicolored houses that conserve the whole picturesque atmosphere of the neighborhood. The small street is almost outdoors today a museum, skirted by sculptures and murals. It is also the place where daily plastic artists go to expose and to sell their works outdoors.

In street of the Valley lberlucea 1261 the Museum of Wax of La Boca .

Don't stop to visit the Fair of Artisans of La Boca, with exhibition and sale of diverse objects of invoice handmade and even level of quality.

Outside of the journey, in the corner of Olavarría and M. Rodríguez, it can visit the church Saint John the Baptist, building of 1896 with Roman Greek sober facade. Few blocks further on are the stadium of the Club Mouth Junior, with their famous stadium La Bombonera, building that takes advantage of to the maximum the small land where it is built, with capacity for 50 thousand spectators, full when it plays the local team. It is the "kidney" of the neighborhood and focus of all the celebrations when the team triumphs.

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