It is inevitable that whenever I walk through Caminito, the tango, the eternal tango, comes to mind “Caminito que el tiempo ha borrado, que juntos un día nos viste pasar …”
At the beginning, the railway line passed through Caminito Street, which was definitively closed in 1928 and the land was abandoned.
In 1950, the initiative of the residents of the area, among whom was the famous Argentine painter Benito Quinquela Martín, recovered the land to create a public walkway that was baptized as Caminito in honor of the tango composed in 1926 by Juan de Dios. Filiberto responsible for the music and Gabino Coria Peñaloza creator of the lyrics, despite the fact that the content of this tango bears no relation to this place but rather refers to the town of Olta in the province of La Rioja.
In 1959 Caminito became an open-air museum street, a cultural center where painters exhibited their paintings, it became the heart of the La Boca neighborhood.
Caminito, the most popular pedestrian corner of the La Boca neighborhood, located in the eastern part of Buenos Aires, is barely 100 meters long and the old conventillos made of corrugated sheet metal painted in bright colors constitute one of the typical images of Buenos Aires.
Caminito is the mixture of color, tango and art. You walk over a festival of colors where the most common is that you find a couple dancing tango and contemporary artists selling their works.
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