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La Boca: Colourful
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  • Updated By PierreZA on September 27, 2007
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  • La Boca - Buenos Aires
    La Boca
    by PierreZA
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    La Boca is famous for its colourfully painted sheet-iron houses. It seems as if life here has not changed much over the years.
    People tango in the street, colourful restaurants and shops.
    You will also find the home of Boca Juniors here. You can visit the stadium, which also has a shop.

  • Directions: It's a picturesque neighbourhood in Buenos Aires

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    La Boca: La Boca
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  • Updated By Luchonda on October 4, 2006
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    Known as the birthplace of the tango, this one-time shipyard has a famous walkway, the Caminito, where tango dancers perform, invite tourists to participate the dance and artists exhibiting their work.
    A lot of pictures, a lot of beautiful colored houses, an athmospere i think you only can find in this previous shipyard where a lot of immigrants from Spain and Italy stranded

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  • Address: La Boca, former shipyard
  • Directions: It's a pintoresque neighborhood in Buenos Aires

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    La Boca: La Boca
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  • Updated By pili on May 10, 2003
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  • Caminito Street - Buenos Aires
    Caminito Street
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    La Boca is a picturesque sector of the city crammed with history and legends. Historically, La Boca is a portside neighborhood. This area received a large part of the European (mostly Italian) inmigrants arriving in the country. Today, La Boca has became a must for tourists.
    Caminito Street is a king of an open-air museum and theatre, where you can find a lot of street artists.-

    La Boca es un barrio muy pintoresco, lleno de historia y leyendas. Historicamente, este es un barrio portuario, que recibió una gran cantidad de innmigrantes europeos, especialmente italianos, que venían en busca de una vida mejor. Actualmente, se ha convertido en un lugar de turismo.
    La famosa calle "Caminito" es un museo al aire libre, lleno de artistas callejeros, especialmente pintores y bailarines de tango.

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    La Boca: La Boca + Caminito = Tango
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  • Updated By Frisbeeace on May 27, 2003
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  • Caminito - La Boca - Buenos Aires
    Caminito - La Boca
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    La Boca is a colourful and pintoresque neighborhood closely related to the history of Tango. La Boca was originally settled by Italian fishermen and, as a result, is full of Italian bars and restuarants. Necochea Street, where once lived Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, is its restaurant centre.

    The houses along the waterfront are painted in bright colours. Which is possibly why so many artists have made La Boca their home. To see some of their work, head to the cobble stoned El Caminito which is closed to traffic and is used as an outdoor gallery and open air theatre. Artists, tango music and merchandise fill the streets.

    This is also the home town of Boca Juniors, the most popular soccer team in the country and almost a cult for many.

    Visit in the morning and later, lunch at the nearby Puerto Madero area across the bridge.

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    La Boca: La Boca, temple of Maradonna and Tango
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  • Updated By Luchonda on October 4, 2006
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  • Blue and yellow walls, symbol of Boca Juniors - Buenos Aires
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    Caminito is a location in "La Boca district of Buenos Aires" made for pedestrians and cyclists. A tourist attraction where local people are selling their paintings/drawings of tango dancing and it's history, fetching prices as high as the perception you have.
    Wooden houses isolated by metall plates the harbour workers "found" are painted with bright colors.
    You will find pictures and photos of the big performers like Carlos Gardel and Osvaldo Pugliese, but also statues of Maradonna on a balcony, the football legend of the Argentina Boca Junior team or even with The Perron presidency, Juan and Evita
    Btw: The colors blue and yellow of the famous football team "BJ" are choosen after a long discussion and finally became from the arrival of a Swedish ship in the former shipyard

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  • Address: La Boca, former shipyard
  • Directions: It's a pittoresque neighborhood in Buenos Aires

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    La Boca: LA BOCA - DO NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT NOT GOING THERE!
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  • By RafaelTheSecond on September 18, 2005
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  • Rafa in Caminito by SOMEONE! - Buenos Aires
    Rafa in Caminito by SOMEONE!
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    Hey..If you want to understand one of the reasons of Tango, you really should to go south and find this very interesting place...LA BOCA is a very poor neighborhood, but it used to be one of the most bohemian places in the city in the old times....Many Tango composers used to perform in the little taverns and tango house that still remains here, and there is a famnous street called Caminito that every step is a revival!

    Colourful houses which they call CONVENTILLOS are still there...food are remarkable and the little art crafts stores and the vendors are an invitation for your pockets!

    Sep 15th, 2005

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  • Address: SOUTHERN PART OF THE CITY
  • Directions: Go to La Boca, taxi is quite cheap and everybody knows where the land of BOCA JUNIOR is, and it is in front of a river called RIACHUELO....Do not approach the riverfront, it might be not a good smell experience!

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    La Boca: LA VUELTA DE ROCHA
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  • By RafaelTheSecond on October 21, 2005
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  • La Vuelta de Rocha by RTL - Buenos Aires
    La Vuelta de Rocha by RTL
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    In La Vuelta de Rocha you can find two icnredible spots in the city where you can see alot of the History of Tango, behemian neighborhoods and also a district where the first italina immigrants settled down in Buenos Aires.

    There you can see the great La Boca, the place where you can see colourful houses, old tavernas and listen a genuine Tango, they do have a great theatre play called THE CONVENTILLOS, which tells the history of the first buildings where people from all nationalities used to live.

    La Vuelta de Rocha is also a part of the Rio de La Plata, there is a plan in the city to clean that part of the river, well that have not started yet, and aprroaching the river can be an awful SMELLING experience, but you can see the old bridge which appers in many pictures and painting of the porteños life, and also EL VAPOR which will be a very nice casino this year!

    SEPTEMBER - FIRST WEEK - 2005

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  • Address: SOUTHERN SIDE OF THE CITY
  • Directions: Following the harbour you will reach La Boca, it is close to the Casa Rosada, but take a cab, do not go walking!;)

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    La Boca: La Boca
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  • Updated By andal13 on November 19, 2003
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  • Caminito - Buenos Aires
    Caminito
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    "...caminito que entonces estabas
    bordeado de trébol y juncos en flor,
    una sombra ya pronto serás,
    una sombra lo mismo que yo..."

    Letra: Gabino Coria Peñaloza
    Música: Juan de Dios Filiberto

    "Caminito" es un famoso tango y una famosa calle del popular barrio de La Boca. Tango, fútbol y pintura son los puntos más destacados del lugar.

    "...little alley that then you were
    lined by shamrocks and flowered reeds,
    a shadow soon you will be,
    a shadow, just like me..."

    Lyrics: Gabino Coria Peñaloza
    Music: Juan de Dios Filiberto

    "Caminito" (little alley) is a famous tango and a famous street of popular district of La Boca.
    Tango, futbol (soccer) and painting are the most remarkable things there.

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    La Boca: ARTS ARE IN THE WALLS :)
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  • By RafaelTheSecond on October 17, 2005
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  • An Harbour Area - La Boca by RTL - Buenos Aires
    An Harbour Area - La Boca by
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    And they are in the walls of Caminito for many years, this is one of the bohemians neighborhood of the Tango, and also the place where the italian descents live, at least the first ones, or the first generation. In La boca you will find the conventillos and very charming artcrafts fair!

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  • Address: VUELTA DE ROCHA - LA BOCA
  • Directions: In the end of Libertador Street, passing through Puerto madero you will reach the region of La boca, it is also where you go south to Mar del Plata

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    La Boca: Tango's Birthplace?
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  • By leok on December 2, 2004
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  • La Boca - Buenos Aires
    by leok
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    This working class barrio is where tango first took hold in Buenos Aires. It was originally the city's docks until they moved in the late 1800s.

    The buildings are a riot of colour and there are some great bars and tango shows on offer as well as the chance to see some professionals practicing their steps outside the local tango cultural centre.

    Be advised to come and go by bus or taxi (no subte). Although the touristy area is pretty safe (though watch your bags and cameras) some of the surrounding streets aren't - maybe not suprising when you consider that many locals live here in poverty and must get pretty sick of being used as a photo opportunity by thouands of tourists.

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