Back to Buenos Aires today is the day we visit la Boca, barrio of Buenos Aires that retains a strong European flavour, with many of its early settlers being from the Italian city of Genova. In fact the name has a strong assonance with the Genoese neighborhood of Boccadasse (or Bocadaze in Genoese dialect), and some people believe that the Buenos Aires barrio was indeed named after it. The conventional explanation is that the neighborhood sits at the mouth (“boca” in Spanish of the Riachuelo.
Here is where Maradona started paying…
