Caminito

This guide to Caminito in Buenos Aires opens in 1882, when striking Genoese dockworkers ran up the flag of Genoa over La Boca and declared their own independent republic, and the president who came in person to tear it down. It follows the same immigrant neighborhood decades later, when a local painter and a tango composer turned an abandoned railway spur into the colorful lane you're walking. Listen for how the walls came to be painted in whatever spare paint the shipyards had on hand that week.