Highlights
- We will get to some incredible murals and streets not much visited
- I invite you to have a coffee in an old cafe of 1882
- We will visit a typical Boca house belonging to great Boca artists friends
- I was a neighbor of La Boca during my childhood and youth time
- We will visit the first Volunteer Firefighter Station created in Argentina
Description
We begin and finish the experience in La Boca neighborhood.
We’ll visit the harbor, warehouses and its picturesque train station where large numbers of immigrants arrive.
We’ll get inside a corrugated metal clad “conventillo” (tenement houses) that used to provide shelter to immigrants and today hosts a cultural centre. We’ll visit one of the many Mutual Assistance Associations: The Volunteer Fire Department, the first in all Argentina. We’ll also get a grasp of the art of Boca through its large murals reflecting different social issues. We’ll observe some old buildings that hosted anarchist newspapers and bordellos in the early 20th century, and also, two local icons: football (Boca Juniors Stadium, from outside) and Religion (The Salesian Church), which worked as refuges for these rootless communities. At last we’ll visit Caminito to find Tango and Fileteado in every corner. We finish with a coffee in a Notable Cafe. We can visit the mythical Museum of Fine Arts of La Boca, part of the building was the home of Benito Quinquela Martin
Includes
Entrance to the Firefighter Station
Entrance to the Conventillo
Coffee
Excludes
Food
If you want to visit Quinquela Museum, the entrance ticket is not included
Important Information
- The meeting point is the corner of Pedro de Mendoza and Martin Rodriguez in La Boca. We end in Caminito (La Boca)
Easy cancellation
Cancel up to 24 hours in advance for a full refund
