La Boca



La Boca it is a district of Buenos Aires, in Argentina. It is located in the Southeastern limit of the city.
In the zone where at the moment is the Mouth, it was the place where Pedro de Mendoza it made the first foundation of Buenos Aires in 1536.
To the residents of La Boca and by extension to its football team, the popular Boca Juniors, deformation is still known like Xeneizes (“zeneixi”, that is to say, genoveses, in its own one dialecto). The immigrants constructed metal plate houses channeled, often mounted on piles or high foundations due to the frequent floods, and painted with shining colors.
Harbor and proletarian zone, the greater artistic exponent of the district was Benito Quinquela Martin, a painter who reflected the tasks of the port and the daily life of his people in neoimpresionist style.
The vicinity of the Brook is one of the sectors of the city more visited by tourists to be very tie to the mythology of tango. Return of Rocha, where the Brook makes an ample curve, he is one of his more characteristic places, like Caminito, a side street immortalized by the tango of he himself name, of Juan de God Filiberto. There they are sold paintings, souveniers and crafts. Sundays there are pairs of tango that dance on their pavement.
The shore was turned stroll and a work of engineering hydraulics has sworn in the curse of floods. The stage of Juniors Mouth is considered a monument by xeneizes. Call The Chocolate box by its high launching slips that give box form him, the spectacle of a party of soccer it is unforgettable by the recognized fervor from the fans (become fond of) from Mouth and its carnival from lights from flare, papers of colors and pumps of roar there.
The Brook shows a landscape of boats left, the skeleton of an old one bridge of iron and the silhouettes of silos and constructions industrialists in the other border. This rough landscape, only mitigated by the colorful one of the houses, inspired the tango Fog of the Brook, of the musician Juan Carlos Cobián and the poet Enrique Cadícamo.
In addition to the Quinquela Museum Martin, in La Boca is the exhibition hall of the Foundation Prow, that makes Argentine contemporary painting samples and Latin American.

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