You can't visit Buenos Aires without making an afternoon pilgrimage to the La Boca barrio and its best-known street. It's certainly the city's most colorful walkway, both literally and figuratively. Multi-hued zinc buildings, restaurants serving up pricey grub and staging modest tango performances,...
A five-story building across a narrow street from the Riachuelo River, the Museo Quinquela, as it’s known in shorthand, contains works by various Argentine artists. The top floor is dedicated to Benito Quinquela Martìn, the painter who documented the daily life of La Boca at the beginning of the...
After tango, wine and steak, fútbol—or as they say in the U.S., soccer—is the fourth great Argentine pastime. And how deep is their love of the game and of Boca Juniors, the national fútbol organization that drives their passion? So deep that there's an entire museum in Boca Junior's La Boca...
Fundación Proa is a testament to Argentina's devotion to the arts. Just around the corner from colorful Caminito, the Fundación Proa–named after the building’s triangular shape resembling the prow of a boat pointing out into the port of the Riachuelo–figures among the city’s top art...
Despite the corny sounding name, the renovated factory is home to one of the most famous tango shows in Buenos Aires. With three levels and a capacity of 1500, the theater itself is impressive. There are bars on either side and a round stage in the middle of the massive room. Until the lights go...