La Boca: tango, color and football

La Boca is an inescapable point for all visitors to Buenos Aires. As a classic low and port neighborhood of the city, La Boca saw the magic of tango born in its tenement houses and the passion of the biggest soccer clubs in the country: Boca Juniors and River Plate. Immigration, mostly Genoese, gave the neighborhood a unique style that is completely contrasting with the high-rise Buenos Aires of the downtown neighborhoods. Caminito, icon of the neighborhood and the city, is an attractive and colorful alley on the banks of the Riachuelo. The renowned plastic artist Quinquela Martín made these gray riverside places a place full of life and color, making it an international reference and one of the 10 most photographed places in the world according to Google Maps. On the walk you will visit places such as the ferry Nicolás Avellaneda, the Benito Quinquela Martín Museum, the Vuelta de Rocha, Caminito, PROA Foundation, the Bombonera, the “house of the ghost”, and the Yellow House of Almirante Brown, among others.