La Boca (32 K)

La Boca
La Boca is one of the most picturesque neighbourhoods in the city, where the immigrants coming from Genoa settled down in the second half of the XIX th century. They built their houses with foils and other materials that were used as ballast in the ships that went into port in search of agricultural products.
The painter Benito Quinquela Martin illuminated the neighbourhood with the colours of his paintings and the singular architecture that can still be observed today is found in his work. The Street Caminito takes its name from a tango by Juan de Dios Filiberto.
This street is today a cheerful outdoor museum of the essence of La Boca.

Caminito in La Boca (32 K)

In the Vuelta de Rocha the Riachuelo River forms a meander. During the wars of independence it was base of the Marine, The restaurants, shops and art galleries complete the square.
In Av. Pedro de Mendoza and Admiral Brown is the skeleton of the Old Bridge that from 1914 and for many years linked both riverbanks of the Riachuelo
The Proa Foundation offers monthly exhibitions.
Museum of Argentine Artists (Av. Pedro de Mendoza 1835) Sample of paintings by Benito Quinquela Martin and the most important figurative painters in Argentina as Lacámera, Policastro, Spilimbergo, Victorica and Sívori. In the third floor one can visit of Quinquela Martin's atelier, here he lived until his death in 1977.