Location: between Garibaldi, Araoz de Lamadrid, del Valle Iberlucea, and Magallanes streets.
Neighbourhood: La Boca
Covered with paintings and sculptures, Caminito street is one of the favorite walks of tourists and "porteños." It is surrounded by typical houses from La Boca, with painted sheet walls of different colors.
Its winding route is because it follows the course of a stream that flowed until the beginning of the 20th Century. The area was traditionally known as "Puntin" (bridge's diminutive in Genovese dialect.)
In the 50's, a neighbour decided to clean and recover the land. He called for help painter from La Boca Benito Quinquela Martín, who named the 100 meters street as "Caminito", due to the famous tango from 1926 by Gabino Coria Peñalosa and Juan de Dios Filiberto (the tango lyrics refer to a road in La Rioja's province.)
Other works by artists such as Luis Perlotti, Roberto Capurro, Juan Leone, Ricardo Sánchez, and Julio Vergottini were added to the walk, until 1959, when Caminito was officially inaugurated as an opened sky museum.
In Caminito and its surrounding areas, street shows and a craftworks fair open on Saturdays and Sundays from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
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