A tour of the La Boca neighborhood (Buenos Aires).

The La Boca neighborhood is perhaps the most particular neighborhood in the city of Buenos Aires.

Not only because it represents one of the two most famous soccer clubs in Argentina, Boca Juniors, but also because it is the heart of Argentine immigration at the beginning of the century.

The colors of the Boca Juniors.

Not surprisingly, the colors of the Boca Juniors club flag are the colors of a Swedish ship, the first to dock in the port of Buenos Aires, after a group of Italian immigrants (Genoese) chose to create a football club in the neighborhood. most popular in the Federal Capital.

Between conventillos, tango and soccer.

Caminito Street is the emblem. Other places to visit are the Usina del Arte, the Club Atlético Boca Juniors stadium, the Benito Quinquela Martín Museum of Arts, the Ribera Theater, the Ghost Tower, and the Casas Amarillas neighborhood, among others.

The Street Caminito, today a tourist center, was at the beginning of the century a street full of sheet metal tenements, which showed its walls painted in different colors.

Initial home of many immigrants, especially Italians and Spaniards, who called attracted by the great city that was Buenos Aires.

They came from wars, deaths, epidemics, misery, destruction, and they sought to rebuild their lives throughout America.