Winnie's trip to Buenos Aires. Caminito

Here are some pictures that Winnie sent from "Caminito".

Caminito is an area of Buenos Aires which is the first free outdoor museum and it was opened in 1959. It is located in the neighborhood of La Boca, which is anything but a museum. La Boca is the oldest port in Buenos Aires and is rich in history and exotic tales.

Caminito is painted in many colors because the immigrants, mostly from Genoa Italy, worked on the shipyards there and used the pint from the ships to pint their small dwellings, called conventillos. The Caminito we see today is a life size replica of what it used to be like at the beginning of the 1900's when millions of European immigrants came to Buenos Aires seeking a better life.
The name Caminito is taken from a famous Tango song that depicts a small country road in Argentina. Which alludes to the Tango history found within this interesting neighborhood in Buenos Aires. The immigrants would socialize in the brothels and it was there that Tango found its feet.