After the Argentines obtained independence in 1816, they fought each other for the next 50 years until no one was left to fight. This resulted in there also not being no one left to work, so the Argentineans enacted an extremely generous immigration program. The upscale section of Buenos Aires is known as little Palermo.
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The not so upscale section around the docks was called Caminito and it was settled by French Basque and Genovese Italians immigrants. They made houses out of corrugated zinc and painted them in the bright marine colors that they could salvage from ships.
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It has a quirky sense of humor
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And great folk art
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It is a fun place to be on a sunny afternoon, but you do not want to be there after 5:30. The shops close up and it is a dangerous area.
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