The emblematic Caminito, the pedestrian alley of the emblematic neighborhood of Buenos Aires, La Boca, was a wasteland and is now one of the most photographed places in the world by tourists attracted by its history and its tango aura.

The Benito Quinquela Martín Museum is celebrating 60 years of its official recovery on October 18.

In order to revalue the works and artists on display, the Benito Quinquela Martín Museum will place plaques with QR codes that provide detailed information on the creations and their authors, many of whom are forgotten but of great renown.

"Caminito, antes que boquense, es nacional," suggests Museum Director Victor Fernandez, as he lists the works Quinquela chose to exhibit in the cut visited by thousands of tourists from around the world.

"According to Google, it is among the ten most photographed places in the world, above the Statue of Liberty," confirmed the director. Even Caminito, the tango par excellence that names him, was born with music by Juan de Dios Filiberto and lyrics by Gabino Coria Peñaloza.

The history of the passage that in La Boca was called "La Curva", until it took its definitive name, goes back to 1866, when British company Ferrocarril Buenos Aires enabled an additional stretch to its branch that reached the port of La Boca.

In 1928 the train ceased to run, and it became a vacant lot. It was not until 1954 that the brothers Arturo and Aníbal Cárrega, who had a naval warehouse in front of "La Curva", decided to give it a more communitarian use and thus "Caminito" was born.

In 1955, statues, ceramic murals and ohter objects were installed by Quinquela, the great Argentine painter of the first years of the twentieth century Argentina.

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