Pasaje Russel
Narrow, mural-covered colonial lane threaded between two Palermo Soho streets, its art repainted every few months.
This guide to Pasaje Russel in Buenos Aires in Palermo Soho traces a lane a real estate bank laid out in the 1880s and named for Oliverio Russel, a Scottish-born ship's pilot who fought in the British invasions of the city and, by one account, was captured and held prisoner in England for years before making it home. You'll hear how the bank's tidy vision for the lane decayed through the twentieth century until artists moved in where it had failed, and how Jorge Luis Borges, who grew up nearby, later set a story in a house along this very passage. The murals on the walls are repainted every few months by name.
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