Buenos Aires, Argentina
Architecture
Colonial, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassic, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Modern, International… Buenos Aires is a city with style.This capital city revives, all across the passages (narrow streets) surrounding Avenida de Mayo or in neighborhoods like Pompeya, the golden years of the beginning of century XX, the recycled facades of the 90s, backyards where people like Borges spent their childhood, when Palermo neighborhood was the end of the capital city. Passages of last century where crimes and love usually take place in the middle of marble sculptures and neon towers. Visiting our architecture is a way to acknowledge the elapsing of time in the space.
Caminito
Located at the block between Garibaldi, Aráoz de Lamadrid, del Valle Iberlucea, and Magallanes Streets, in the District of La Boca.
This road winds because it follows a stream bed which used to run until the beginning of the 20th century. This area was well known as “Puntin.â€
(“bridge†diminutive in a Geneve dialect).
The train to Ensenada used to run the street until 1920. After the railroad was dismantled, it became a trash dump area. A neighbour decided to clean up and recover the land in the 50’s. He gathered the help of Benito Quinquela MartÃn, the painter from La boca, who named the 100 meter street as “Caminito†after the famous tango by Gabino Coria Peñalosa and Juan de Dios Filiberto , from 1926. (the tango lyrics refer to a road in the province of La Rioja.)
Many art works were added to this road, such as works by Luis Perlotti, Roberto Capurro, Juan Leone, Ricardo Sánchez, and Julio Vergottini. In 1959, “Caminito†was officialy established as an open-space museum.
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