Calle Museo Caminito | Sitio oficial de turismo de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires
Esta calle museo es uno de los lugares más fotografiados del mundo: sus adoquines y los conventillos de chapa, con sus paredes pintadas de distintos colores, le dan un encanto único.
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Caminito es uno de los paseos más emblemáticos de la Ciudad y uno de los atractivos imperdibles para quienes la visitan. Con sus conventillos típicos de chapa de distintos colores, es también un museo a cielo abierto de casi 150 metros de longitud. Su trazado sinuoso se debe a que sigue el cauce de un arroyo que fluyó por allí hasta principios del siglo XX. La zona era conocida popularmente como “Puntin” (diminutivo de “puente” en dialecto genovés ).
Durante mucho tiempo formó parte del recorrido del ferrocarril a Ensenada (a una hora de Buenos Aires) hasta que, en 1928, el ramal fue clausurado y la vía se convirtió en un callejón abandonado. Fue recién en los años 50 que, gracias a la iniciativa de varios vecinos, se recuperó el terreno para convertirlo en un paseo peatonal y en una calle museo, en la que se fueron sumando obras de distintos artistas. Uno de los grandes impulsores de la puesta en valor de la zona fue el pintor Benito Quinquela Martín, quien ha sido un gran benefactor del barrio de La Boca.
Fue el propio Quinquela Martín quien, en 1959, impulsó que se lo bautizara con el nombre del célebre tango “Caminito”, compuesto por Juan de Dios Filiberto y Gabino Coria Peñaloza.
Curiosidades
¿Sabías que la letra del tango “Caminito” fue un poema escrito por Gabino Coria Peñaloza, en 1903, en homenaje a un sendero de la localidad de Olta, en la provincia de La Rioja?
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Buenos Aires’ Most Fabled Neighborhood
La Boca, the Buenos Aires’ neighborhood famed for its colorful houses, its tango and its soccer team, is the one spot that makes every visitor’s agenda.
The centerpiece is the cobblestone strip, El Caminito, or little walkway.
The one-time railway route is lined with the bright facades that make La Boca postcard perfect.
Named for a 1926 tango song, the pedestrian lane features an outdoor fair where artists sell their wares and tango dancers prance along the sidewalk in between photo ops with tourists.
But there’s much more to La Boca than what meets the casual tourist’s eye.
Like New York City’s Lower East Side and London’s East End, La Boca was the neighborhood where new immigrants first established themselves when they arrived in Buenos Aires.
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Due to safety issues, La Boca is the one neighborhood in Buenos Aires for which we recommend a tour for your first visit, either a full-day or half-day tour that includes La Boca and other famous spots such as Plaza de Mayo, or if you’re adventurous, a full-day bike tour that include La Boca and Caminto.
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The neighborhood may derive its name from its location at ‘La Boca’ (the mouth) of the Riochuelo, as the Mantanza River is usually called.
The port-side barrio is an obvious point for boats to come ashore and historians say the Spanish first landed in La Boca as early as 1536.
During their early colonial expansion the colonizers housed African slaves in this area.
After Argentina gained independence many of the freed stayed.
With the arrival of the industrial revolution, La Boca grew into a gritty shipyard area with meat curing plants and tanneries.
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Xeneizes, Tango and Lunfardo
Mass settlement in La Boca began in 1830, with an influx of immigrants from Genoa, Italy. Coming from a port city, it was natural for the Genoese to settle along the Buenos Aires waterfront.
There were so many Genoese in La Boca at that time that some say the name is a spin-off of the name Boccadasse, a neighborhood in Genoa.
The new arrivals constructed tenements made of scrap metal and painted the shacks with bright leftover marine paint to liven up the one-time wasteland.
Soon the Italians were joined by immigrants from Spain, France, England, Ireland, Eastern Europe and Greece and among others.
The cross-cultural mix gave birth to tango, although the term wouldn’t be coined until the end of the 1890’s. Factory and port workers would gather to dance in the central halls of the tenements and vie to grab the attention of the few women available at the time.
La Boca also played a fundamental part in the creation of the Argentine slang, lunfardo.
The vocabulary grew out of cocoliche, a mix of Italian dialects that immigrants used to communicate with each other.
Even the barrio’s famous soccer team, La Boca Juniors are also called Los Xeneizes, derived from the word for ‘Genoese’ in the Italian dialect.
By the turn of the 19th century the area was the second most populated zone in Buenos Aires but the construction of a new port in Puerto Madero meant the shipping industry would move northward.
As Argentina entered its golden era, residents moved further inland and La Boca began to decline.
La Boca’s Revival
A revival of El Caminito and La Boca in the 1950’s was led by artist, Quinquela Martín.
The famed La Boca orphan was abandoned at birth, adopted and spent a good portion of his childhood in La Boca.
After studying drawing at a La Boca night school, he ended up becoming one of Argentina’s most famous painters and a major neighborhood philanthropist.
After the General Roca railway train line, which ran through here shut down in 1954, Martín set to work to save the barrio.
He gathered neighbors to paint the houses bright colors, emulating the early immigrants. The artists began to host outdoor theater here utilizing the colorful houses as part of the backdrop.
At the urging of Martín, in 1959 the city government officially declared the street El Caminito an open-air museum.
It’s named in honor of Martín’s friend, Juan de Dios Filibrito, a former La Boca resident who co-authored the tango tune of the same name.
Safety in La Boca
As in most places where a popular tourist attraction sits in the middle of an economically disadvantaged neighborhood, La Boca can be dangerous for visitors who stray off the tourist path.
Read our safety tips to learn about some of the most common crimes committed on tourists in Buenos Aires and how to avoid making yourself a target.
Most visitors just see El Caminito, its the few surrounding streets and La Bombonera the stadium where Diego Maradona became ‘God’ for his fans.
For brave low-profile travelers who want to explore more of the neighborhood, there are many interesting sites here, just don’t carry anything you can’t afford to lose.
A nice way to explore a La Boca with relative anonymity is by bicycle or go for strength in numbers and take a tour.
If you are headed to La Boca at night to eat in one of its many cantinas such as the El Obrero steakhouse or to dance tango, the usual advice is to take a taxi or uber to and from your destination.
La Boca Safety Tips:
• Don’t carry anything you can’t afford to lose.
• Be careful straying off the tourist path, which includes El Caminito and the few surrounding blocks.
• Don’t ever wear a River Plate shirt to La Boca — that’s the soccer team’s biggest rival and you’d be asking for trouble!
→ Do you need Travel Insurance for Argentina?
Getting to La Boca from other parts of Buenos Aires:
–Subway: There is no subway to La Boca
–Bus lines:
20, 25, 29, 33, 46, 53, 64, 86, 129, 152, 159, 168, 195
Tours & Bike Rental:
→ Check the La Boca tours on our curated tour list
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La Boca at a glance
| Location | La Boca is located in southeast Buenos Aires. There is no subway, so you can get here by taxi or bus. There is also a tourist bus. |
| What to see, what to do | Stroll along the famous tourist street of El Camenito, take pictures with tango dancers and all the most famous characters of Argentina, visit the Boca Juniors La Bombonera stadium or even attend an enchanting football match. |
| Best time to visit | Any day. On weekends there can be a lot of tourists, but also more entertainment. |
| Accommodation | Only the most desperate travelers stay in La Boca. There are no hotels, you can find apartments for rent. |
| Safety | La Boca is one of the most dangerous areas in Buenos Aires. It is safe to walk only on El Caminito and on the grounds of the La Bombonera stadium. |
A walk along La Boca
Almost every more or less touristic city in the world has a place that can be called the epicenter of tourism, where almost no locals set foot, but the density of foreigners with cameras per square meter just rolls over. The La Boca area is the tourist mecca of Buenos Aires.
But this area, like everything in the city of great contrasts, has its own specifics. Surprisingly, La Boca is still one of the most criminal areas of Buenos Aires, and therefore it is necessary to distinguish that there is the La Boca area itself, in which only the most daring tourists pop in, and a tourist spot that is not with La Boca, neither with Buenos Aires itself has much in common.
How did one of the most unattractive places in the city turn into a commercial tourist wonder? I would call it a good marketing ploy: supposedly typical colorful houses that are not found anywhere else in Buenos Aires, a huge concentration of creative people and very interesting characters who successfully make good money on a patch of less than 1 square kilometer attract attention. Nevertheless, La Boca is one of those places where the history of Buenos Aires began, albeit not the most pleasant part of it, so it’s still worth stopping by and seeing it at least once.
1. So, returning to the topic of safety again, with peace of mind and a large SLR camera in La Boca, you can walk around a place called El Caminito (which can be translated as “path”) – a small pedestrian street.
2. Most of the tourists are thrown here as part of group excursions on various types of tourist vehicles. Solo travelers can take a taxi or take a regular city bus (exactly the same as in the photo).
From Plaza De Mayo it is about 20 minutes drive.
3. The city’s official tourist bus also goes here, and La Boca is just the case when it will be very useful to use it, since you can very well see the area outside of El Caminito from it, and it will be much safer than easy to walk around this area.
4. At the very entrance to El Caminito you will be greeted by a tourist classic of Argentina. You can start with Diego Maradona. Of course, there is nothing free for tourists in La Boca, here tourists are the only bread of the local “inhabitants”, so you will have to pay for the photo.
5. It is worth continuing with a photo shoot in candid poses with tango dancers, you can even try to do a couple of steps.
6. Both men and women will be satisfied. Attention here is not deprived of anyone.
7. It is proposed to continue the tourist ceremony as follows.
8. Actually the main character of today’s walk.
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Recently, Pope Francis has confidently emerged as a leader among eminent Argentinean characters. Since Catholics make up the majority of believers in Latin America, the theme of the Latin Pope is exploited with might and main by the tourism industry, in particular in Buenos Aires, where the Pope is from. Even thematic excursions to the places of life of Francis are organized. In La Boca, his image is also now found at every turn.
10. A touching monument to a fireman.
11. In general, El Caminito abounds with monuments, you can really spend several hours here photographing the details of this small place.
12. But Maradona does not give up his positions before Pope Francis. Although he is far from being a saint, they pray for him in Argentina no less.
13. Tango is also found at every turn, and you can enjoy it while chewing a juicy Argentinean steak. Although, it is better not to go to local restaurants, because. local establishments do not shine with high quality, but the prices bite.
14. All such attractive characters of La Boca are very materialistic, absolutely no one here wants to do anything without payment, even to get into the camera lens.
15. But still, it’s very, very colorful.
16. Open any Argentina travel guide and find out that coming to Argentina and not seeing tango, not drinking wine, not eating steak and not seeing local gauchos is like not visiting it. Judging by the guidebooks, after visiting La Boca, you can safely go back to the airport, because you will see and try all the classics of Argentina here.
17. Walking along El Caminito, you might think that sitting chewing Argentinean food, drinking wine and immediately listening to Argentinean music, replaced by tango and Maradona’s double plying in search of a client – this is what millions of tourists come to Buenos Aires for .
18. The characters in this place are still very photogenic, so be sure to bring your camera.
19. Staging of a typical district apartment.
20. Re-enactment of a typical patio. Unfortunately, there is nothing real here, a solid theater for tourists.
21. You can go inside some houses and appreciate how life was in La Boca at the time of the formation of Buenos Aires.
22. Another work dedicated to firefighters.
23. La Boca
24. One of the workshops.
25. Yes, El Caminito, and a large part of La Boca, is almost entirely made of paving stones, so walking in heels here will not be very comfortable.
26. Unless, of course, you are a tango dancer and have come here to earn extra money.
27. And, of course, souvenirs. I think it goes without saying that the prices for tourist junk here are 2-3 times higher than in the rest of the city. But, on the other hand, the choice here is so great that you can buy it in one go.
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Sometimes there are pleasant elements of antiquity.
29. Dogs convey the general spirit and mood of the Argentine people.
30. Another tango dining room.
31. Poet.
32. Sailor. The marine theme is also very popular in La Boca, because it was here that many sailors settled, who never differed in wealth, and La Boca was originally a poor area and remains so to this day.
33. Holy Argentine trio.
34. And firefighters keep saving people from fire.
35. Graffiti in the El Caminito area is also very common.
36. Lovely filetéado style.
37. How can you leave Argentina without magnets?
38. A little more, and there would be a corner of a Ukrainian immigrant 🙂
39. Here is such a kind of art.
40. La Boca from the very beginning was the area with the highest concentration of prostitutes, sailors and newly minted immigrants created a very good deal for these services.
41. Black mom.
42. Colorful and extremely quiet corner.
43. La Boca.
44. Street food. I do not recommend for people with a weak stomach, the food is quite coarse, but still quite tasty and very satisfying.
45. Classic choripan. Learn more about Argentine food here.
46. Still, for meat lovers, Argentina is a fantastic country.
47. Creative old men.
48. Very popular junk art theme.
49. Bicycle time machine.
50. I note that the city administration does not forget about La Boca and from time to time tries to attract as many tourists as possible there. For example, a modern museum and exhibition hall PROA is open here. Currently, work is underway to improve the east of the area, which is adjacent to the most expensive and prestigious area of Puerto Madero. Who knows, maybe someday this hotbed of crime will turn into a very respectable area.
51. Speaking of La Boca, one cannot but mention the topic of football. Football in Argentina is an unofficial religion and, like any religion, it makes a lot of money. La Boca is home to the famous Boca Juniors team.
52. The La Bombonera stadium is also located here. If you are not a football fan, then there is absolutely nothing to do in this stadium, as it is old and ugly, but it is still worth visiting a football match in Argentina, because it is a completely different world and it is different from what you can see at European matches. People are really sick of football.
53. La Boca.
54. Pope Francis blesses you to go to the market and spend your dollars.
55. La Boca is also famous for its iron bridge. If La Boca is a poor area of Buenos Aires, then on the other side, a completely pitch hell of poverty begins.
56. You don’t have to go far from El Caminito to understand how neglected the area itself and everything that surrounds it.
For example, the water of the Riachuelo River is the dirtiest water in all of Argentina, and in general one of the most polluted rivers in the world.
57. Outside of El Caminito, the situation is already much simpler.
58. The future stars of Argentine football are raised.
59. The railway, and fully functioning!
60. Another saint. In Latin America, there is a strong pattern between the poor and the number of worshipers of a particular saint.
61. This is not yet the brightest housing option in which the ordinary citizens of La Boca live. The area, of course, is dangerous, but with a strong desire, you can still take a walk in it, getting rid of any minimally valuable things as much as possible. The problem in areas with a high concentration of gopniks is that you can get nuts here simply because you accidentally wandered into “foreign” territory. Such is La Boca!
El Caminito in the barrio of La Boca in Buenos Aires
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The colorful street of El Caminito exemplifies the ingenuity and creativity of Porteños, who managed to turn the impossible into a once abandoned and gloomy port place to the tourist mecca and a real must see of Buenos Aires.
The La Boca harbor area originates from one of the remote piers of Puerto Madero. In 1960, the city changed its attitude towards this barrio with a very clever gesture – painting the tin shacks on an abandoned Caminito street in bright colors with the help of the artist Benito Quinquela Martín, thereby ingeniously creating a landmark from literally nothing.
As a result, an ordinary street of a poor port area has turned into a real money mecca for tourists, and now Caminito has become one of the most touristy corners of Buenos Aires! By the way, the same technique can be seen in the Chilean Valparaiso, where the favelas on the hills are cheerfully full of all the colors of the rainbow.
Caminito houses painted in wide squares in bright and pastel colors; from the balconies look out plaster figures significant for porteños – from the Pope and Carlos Gardel to Messi and other football players – as well as ordinary, but less expressive figures, for example, formidable port priestesses.
In Spanish, saminito means “path” or “path”. Why? On that sunny day, the guide disguised himself as a taxi driver for us, and on the way to Caminito he told us how the street got its name. At the end of the 19th century, all ships from Italy and Spain sailed here, and from the ship’s gangway, immigrants immediately got to this street, along which they went further to the La Boca quarter. Actually, this is hinted at by the ironic graffiti in one of the courtyards, which depicts a whole “stage” of wandering circus performers and dubious personalities.
Very close to the Boca Juniors football stadium, which may be of interest to football fans. I would add that a walk along Caminito takes no more than half an hour, and I would not really recommend going deeper into the barrio of La Boca.
Messi and Carlos Gardel (author of the iconic Por la cabeza)…
..and from nova Carlos Gardel
Tango dancing in some cafes 903 08
Typical Caminito souvenirs
Harbor view across from Caminito street
Where to eat
El Obrero (Agustin R.