Where do boca juniors play and is it worth visiting?

Andrew Rae McCance - raemac@bastay.com
http://www.buenosairesstay.com

La Boca is found just south of San Telmo and Puerto Madero. It is a great favourite of Buenos Aires鈥?visitors famed for picturesque, brightly coloured houses of wood and corrugated iron that are decorated with grotesque effigies of famous Argentines. The streets are alive with tango, street performers and more recently La Boca has become the city鈥檚 bohemia. This is a great neighbourhood for a day sightseeing, to learn some tango, buy great local art and craft and enjoy the street performers who range from the most chic and acrobatic tango dancers, to some of the strangest, wonderful and outlandish crazies to perform anywhere. There are some great photo opportunities and a visit to La Boca should not be missed. I tend to take visitors around 11h00 on a Saturday or Sunday and then off to San Telmo for a wander around the street market and antique shops, then on to Puerto Madero for a late lunch and an early evening walk along the diques (docks).
La Boca has an even greater claim to fame; La Bombonera (J.F Armando) Stadium, home to Boca Juniors, is located in La Boca and Boca Juniors is one of the most successful football teams in South America. This brings me to my last point on tourism, if you are a football fan do not leave Argentina without seeing a football match 鈥?you will be held hostage by tides of pure emotion, and beaten back and forth by wretchedness and euphoria. Even 鈥榝ootball widows鈥?enjoy Argentine football matches.
La Boca is a very old part of the city where settlers from Paraguay and northern Argentina first founded a permanent settlement at the mouth (boca) of the Riachuelo River that flows into the Rio Del La Plate. La Boca was the first port of Buenos Aires and the population grew steadily in the XIX century from an inflow of immigrants from Italy.
We claim on this website to 鈥榯ell it like it is鈥?- some parts of La Boca are not a place for unaccompanied female or elderly visitors late at night, although parts of La Boca are slowly gentrifying and it is a much safer places to live then in the past. We have lots of requests for apartments in La Boca that tend to be good-value-for-money and so La Boca, Buenos Aires is a new neighbourhood listed by Buenos Aires Stay.

Andrew Rae McCance - raemac@bastay.com
http://www.buenosairesstay.com

YES ITS WORTH VISITING!! ME ENCANTAN LAS BOCA JUNIORSSSSS

"La Bomobonera" located in the La Boca neighbourhood.

Yes, it is worth the watching!

www.bocajuniors.com.ar/