The bright colors of the emblematic Caminito Street again look in the neighborhood of La Boca, thanks to the restoration of the murals and sculptures that one day served as inspiration for Juan de Dios Filiberto, Carlos Gardel and many other lovers of the tango.

Red, yellow, green and blue tones are the characteristics housing Caminito, in just one hundred meters gathers painters, singers, tango dancers and thousands of tourists, where it is one of the points most frequented by visitors to Argentina's capital.

They met in October 60 years of the appointment of Caminito as "street museum", so that those responsible for the project wanted that time "the work was completely restored", Efe said the secretary of the General Directorate of the Proa Foundation, Elizabeth Torres.

His organization is the driving force behind this renewal, which gives visual vividness Caminito already won in 2017 other surrounding streets from an action of the Government of Buenos Aires.

Now, the new coat of paint reaches the corner where the streets of the Iberlucea Valle and Don Pedro de Mendoza crossing, Enter where most visitors.

In addition to the treatment applied to the walls, the project conditions the bases sculptures and monuments comprising the Museum to the Outdoors, created by the Argentine painter Quinquela.

Luis Perlotti and Julius Caesar Vergottini are some sculptors whose pieces were reconditioned.

Although efforts have been carried out by different entities, Torres indicates that, without the residents of La Boca, the appreciation would be more complicated.

The representative of the Proa Foundation states that all citizens and artists from the neighborhood "sometime feel involved in some activity that develops" there.

To meet the deadline foreseen, to which even they have earned him two months, Torres stressed that executed "the work of civil way a heritage space" and structured the plan with organizations of the neighborhood and the city government.

After this work, you have to wait for the restoration of the area remains, so Torres adds that "probably" will study creating an education program on the importance of the heritage of Caminito.

But nevertheless, notes that "policies have to come a little state".

"Private what we can do is work, bring wills and explore possibilities as to make that happen ", reflects.

The company requested the restoration in a joint collaboration with the Museum Quinquela backed by American Express through Resources Foundation.

"We Caminito as a projection of the Quinquela Martin Museum, Caminito is a work over Quinquela ", He exposes the director of the museum created by the iconic artist of La Boca, Victor Fernandez.

Quinquela Martin (1890-1977), known for his paintings port, It was one of those responsible for the appearance that looks Caminito and for these reasons, "The museum is always involved in everything that has to do with the enhancement of the passage", Fernandez asserts.

"There is a moment in which the work of Quinquela out of his canvases and begins to spill the neighborhood with the tools they had endorsed", considers the director of the museum, who he says that the painter made use of the distinctive colors of the neighborhood.

Fernandez concludes that "look out Caminito is lean as seen by Quinquela an important part of cultural identity Argentina".

On the other hand, Torres believes that, Apart from the original colors return to the project created by Quinquela, your body returns "a value very important" to that part of the city.

"A artistic level, the names given in art history boquense are fabulous and are a feature that also makes the idiosyncrasies of the neighborhood ", Torres asserts.

Although Filiberto was responsible for his name, Caminito reading, according Fernández, not "exhausted in the tango".

"It is the synthesis of the universality of a village", define.

In that particular village, Mouth, the colors of his most famous corner now shine as they did when Filiberto wrote his song and sang Gardel.

Source: Carmen Herranz – EFE