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back to the end of the the on-site museum, the
19th century. Within the Museo de la Pasion
traditional exterior there Boquense, is infinitely less
are three modern floors exciting than going to a
and a roof terrace, match. It does, however,
allowing for an have flashy audio and visual
extensive and varied giz mos and statistic-heavy
year-round program dis play boards, cele-
of exhibitions that brating Boca Juniors’
include painting, many trophies and
sculpture, and show ing a reverence for
photo graphy. Various their former players that
video installations, Exhibit at Museo de la borders on idolatry.
concerts, fashion Pasion Boquense Modern additions to
shows, and conferences the museum are El Diez,
are also included in the a statue of Diego Maradona, and
eclectic schedule of events. a 10-ft- (3-m-) high figure of Empty stands that fill to capacity for
Several temporary exhibitions Martín Palermo, the club’s matches at La Bombonera
are held each year. The primary highest goal scorer.
focus is on 20th-century Latin by commercialization. What
American art, though not draws the multitude of
exclusively or dogmatically so. y El Caminito photographers and makes
In past years, for example, the Calle del Valle Iberlucea 1300. City El Caminito a staple of glossy
museum has exhibited many Map 1 F4. @ 29, 33, 152, 159. coffee-table books are the
exciting works ranging from houses which flank the street
Mexican archaeological finds Recognized as Argentina’s and whose corrugated zinc
to contemporary Italian only open-air museum, walls and roofs are painted in
abstract paintings. El Caminito (Little Lane) is a vivid colors. Blues and yellows,
Refurbished in 2007, the short pedestrianized street the colors of the Boca Juniors
Fundación Proa now has more jutting out west from La soccer team, predominate.
spacious exhibition areas and Vuelta de Rocha. Its name is This polychromatic practice
improved facilities. Already taken from a tango song was devised by 19th- and
considered one of the best art reminiscent of a melancholic early 20th-century Genoese
museums in Buenos Aires, this Shakespearean reflection on immigrants, who scrounged
stylish and brilliantly curated the ravages of time, written pots of paint from wherever
gallery is a treasure trove for the in 1926 by locals Peñaloza they could to brighten up their
culturally minded tourist. and Filiberto. Although the otherwise dismal, and usually
street is over crowded with overcrowded, slum dwellings.
vendors and pamphleteering Now the street brims with
t La Bombonera restau rant staff, its charms have displays of artworks, handi-
not been entirely obliterated crafts, and sculptures.
Brandsen 805. City Map 1 E3.
Tel (011) 5777-1212. @ 29, 33, 152,
159, 168. Open 11am−5pm daily.
Closed restricted on match days.
7 - = Museo de la Pasion
Boquense: Tel (011) 4362-1100.
Open 10am–6pm daily. & 8 call
to verify. ∑ museoboquense.com
Named La Bombonera (The
Chocolate Box) in reference to its
particularly compact structure,
this soccer stadium was built in
1940 and remodeled in the 1990s
by the then club president and
city mayor, Mauricio Macri (who
has since become the Argentine
president). It has seen many
exciting matches and been
packed with similarly passionate
audiences. When empty,
however, it has an eerie stillness
and solemnity, like a battlefield
devoid of its two armies. Visiting One of the colorful buildings flanking El Caminito

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