Last modified: 2005-01-22 by antonio martins
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La Boca is a district of the city of Buenos
Aires located near the mouth of Rio de la Plata. It has been in the
past the first place of landing for the immigrants coming from Europe,
mostly Italians. Lot of them settled there. La Boca is now an abandoned
port due to silt up and industrial pollution.
Ivan Sache, 15 Jun 1998
The district of La Boca, as such, doesn’t have a flag of its own; no Buenos
Aires district has one (we’re just starting with provincial
flags, after all...). However, considering that the [soccer]
club Boca Juniors is based on La Boca, when it wins matches (...) the whole
neighbourhood rises up in flags with the Boca Juniors colors [blue and yellow].
Luis Havas, transl. by António Martins, 16 Mar 2000
![[La Boca flag]](../images/a/ar@boca.gif)
The blue-yellow-blue horizontal tribar, a flag created in 1905 for the Boca
Juniors soccer club, one one of the main Soccer clubs in Argentina — it is still
a sports flag only, note, and not at all an official district flag, even if it
may be used by local tiffosi to show general allegience to the distrcit
of Boca.
António Martins, 21 Jun 2000
According to my memory, when the football club was founded, they disagreed
as to the club colours, so they agreed to watch the harbour and take the flag
colours of the first foreign ship coming in. It was swedish.
Knut A. Berg, 16 Jun 1998
It should be noted also that, thanks to the efforts of Guatemala-based
argentine vexillologist Luis Havas, it is known exactly which swedish ship
accidentally passing by the Buenos Aires harbour that morning of 1905.03.23
(the club was officially founded in 1905.04.03) inspired the colors of this
flag: it was the 4146 ton freighter Drottning Sophia, sailing from
Copenhagen.
António Martins, 21 Jun 2000
![[Flag of Genoa]](../images/i/it-genoa.gif)
«It is a large genoese neighborhood, but not of nowadays Genoa... rather a picturesque, special neighborhood, dynamic during the day and