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La Bocabirth place of tango and Milonga

La Boca
Birthplace of Tango and Milonga


Buenos Aires has a lot of different attractions. As Argentina capital city is contains most of the historical buildings such us, La Casa Rosada, Plaza de Mayo and El obelisco among others. Buenos Aires (B.S A.S) is a wonderful mixture of, old style architecture to high storage buildings.
One of the most wonderful and traditional place in B.S A.S is “La Boca” It’s name is given due to that is the mouth of the Riachuelo, the place from were Pedro de Mendoza entered in the first foundation, and that is was used as a port for a long time. The activities of La Boca were always link to the port and the productive things. This also brought a big number of immigrants form Genova that spoke xeneise dialect, word that is now used to define the inhabitants of the neighbourhood. These workers brought with them the new ideas of socialists and anarchists and they constituted to this neighbourhood in one of the centres of the socialist fight, obt...

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