La Boca

This guide to La Boca traces the mouth of the Riachuelo river, where nineteenth-century immigrants from Genoa built homes from scrap shipyard iron and painted them in whatever leftover ship paint they could scrape together. You'll hear how the neighborhood's fortunes turned as the port moved elsewhere and the river grew fouled by industry. It follows the story to a local painter, Benito Quinquela Martin, who grew up watching that same water. Listen for how a single street came to carry his name into the city's memory.