La Vida en La Boca, Buenos Aires
by Venetia Featherstone-Witty
Title
La Vida en La Boca, Buenos Aires
Artist
Venetia Featherstone-Witty
Medium
Photograph - Photographs
Description
As one of Buenos Aires's 48 barrios, La Boca is located in the city's south-east near its old port. The barrio of Barracas is to the west; San Telmo and Puerto Madero are to the north. In 1882, after a lengthy general strike, La Boca seceded from Argentina, and the rebels raised the Genoese flag, which was immediately torn down personally by then President Julio Argentino Roca.
Among sports fans, Boca is best known for being the home of world-renowned football club Boca Juniors. The club plays their home matches in the Estadio Alberto J. Armando, popularly known as La Bombonera (The chocolate box in Spanish)
La Boca is a popular destination for tourists visiting Argentina, with its colourful houses and pedestrian street, the Caminito, where tango artists perform and tango-related memorabilia is sold. Other attractions include the La Ribera theatre, many tango clubs and Italian taverns. The actual area visited by tourists is only a few blocks long and has been built up for tourism very actively over the last few years. Outside this tourist area, it is a fairly poor neighborhood that has had many regular occurrences of petty crimes reported.
It has also been a centre for radical politics, having elected the first socialist member of the Argentine Congress (Alfredo Palacios in 1935) and was home to many demonstrations during the crisis of 2001.
As of 2016, the health of over 1,000 La Boca citizens is threatened by the pollution of the Matanza-Riachuelo River (which contains high levels of arsenic and lead due to centuries of unstopped pollution)
FEATURED 12/4/16 in "Premium FAA Artists"
FEATURED 6/2/21 in "Out of the Ordinary"
Uploaded
March 22nd, 2016
Statistics
Viewed 499 Times - Last Visitor from New York, NY on 04/22/2024 at 7:06 PM
Embed
Share
Sales Sheet
Comments (3)
Venetia Featherstone-Witty
Thank you Lucinda. Best time to revisit is during our late Spring or early summer - coming up! Buenos Aires continues to be restored and there are so many beautiful places to see here, and wonderful architecture, parks and cultural events. I would be happy to show you around if you want to let me know when you are coming! :)
Lucinda Walter
So beautiful, great shot! We enjoyed our time at La Boca we plan to go back there again. l/f