Glew is a city in southern

Almirante Brown Partido Almirante Brown is a partido of the Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, located at the south of the Gran Buenos Aires urban area, at coordinates . It has an area of and 555,731 inhabitants (), and its capital is Adrogué. Name The partido is nam ...

, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Its municipal area of holds a population of 57,878 (). It is located from

Buenos Aires Buenos Aires ( or ; ), officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires ( es, link=no, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires), is the capital and primate city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the Río de la Plata, on South ...

city, and connected to it by the

Ferrocarril General Roca The General Roca Railway (FCGR) (native name: Ferrocarril General Roca) is a broad gauge railway in Argentina which runs from Constitución station in Buenos Aires to the south of the country through the provinces of Buenos Aires, La Pampa, ...

. The city originated with the purchase of the land in 1857 by Juan Glew, who established an

estancia An estancia is a large, private plot of land used for farming or raising cattle or sheep. Estancias in the southern South American grasslands, the ''pampas'', have historically been estates used to raise livestock, such as cattle or sheep. In Pu ...

there. He donated land for the extension of the

Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway The Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway (BAGS) ( es, Ferrocarril del Sud) was one of the ''Big Four'' broad gauge, , British-owned companies that built and operated railway networks in Argentina. The company was founded by Edward Lumb in 1862 ...

in 1865, and a permanent settlement was founded at the site on August 14 by the name of ''Pueblo Cambaceres'' (in honor of Antonio Cambaceres, a distinguished writer and legislator who owned an adjacent lot). The Parish of St. Anne was consecrated in 1905. This small church was chosen in 1953 by a frequent summer visitor, painter

Raúl Soldi Raúl Soldi (27 March 1905 – 21 April 1994) was an Argentine painter and production designer whose work treated various subjects, including landscapes, portraits, the theater and the circus, and nature. His theatrical figures are renowned for ...

, for the creation of a series of murals, and on his initiative, th
Fundación Soldi
was established in Glew in 1979 for the promotion of the arts.

Borders

* North: Town of Longchamps * East: Town of Ministro Rivadavia * West: Esteban Echeverria Partido * South: Presidente Perón Partido

External links

*
Municipal website
Almirante Brown Partido Populated places in Buenos Aires Province Populated places established in 1865 Cities in Argentina 1865 establishments in Argentina {{BuenosAiresAR-geo-stub