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Barrio de La Boca, Buenos Aires
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Barrio de La Boca, Buenos Aires
The Barrio de La Boca is very well known for football lovers as there you can find the Boca Juniors Stadium and it is also the most colourful of all the different areas of the city of Buenos Aires.
It is also very well known also for the short pedestrian Caminito Street, due to the Tango that has its name. It is only 100 meters long with no doors but some windows and some balconies full of plants and clothes hanged to dry, and with all kinds of murals, ceramic and different adornments. This short distance street is, as in the rest of the neighbourhood, an explosion of colors and sounds, plastic artists, jugglers, musicians and tango dancers. The street was opened as a cross by to shorten up distances in the old times.
It is said and Historians agree that the neighbourhood of La Boca (mouth of the river) was the place where Pedro de Mendoza founded the city of Santa Maria de los Buenos Aires in 1536. Since the early days it has been the natural port of Buenos Aires.
La Boca is one of the neighbourhoods of Buenos Aires with more personality, and comes partly due to the particular architecture. In the origins the houses were two types: of wood or of sheet, both with iron balconies. Still now it is possible to find them in considerable number of different examples. The fronts of grooved sheet combine with the carpentries of wood enriched by varied mouldings matching with the trimmings. But not only the wood is in use, also there were common the closings rods of super wood put forming rhombuses that were separating the top galleries of the balcony or were creating a space, closing partly the gallery of entry, in ground floor used not a simple decoration, but to protect from the sun. The origin of the diverse colours on the walls comes from the left over paintings that the sailors brought back back after painting their boats to their houses, and as the painting was expensive it was used all covering till where it arrived with the last drop, and changing to the next colour to finish up.