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 n ...

Buenos Aires Province Buenos Aires, officially the Buenos Aires Province, is the largest and most populous Provinces of Argentina, Argentine province. It takes its name from the city of Buenos Aires, the capital of the country, which used to be part of the province an ...

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

Buenos Aires Buenos Aires, controlled by the government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Argentina. It is located on the southwest of the Río de la Plata. Buenos Aires is classified as an Alpha− glob ...

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 or estância is a large, private plot of land used for farming or raising cattle or sheep. Estancias are located in the southern South American grasslands of Chilean and Argentine Patagonia, while the ''pampas'' have historically bee ...

there. He donated land for the extension of the

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

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 Presidente Perón Partido is a partido located in the Greater Buenos Aires urban area in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. The provincial subdivision has a population of about 60,000 inhabitants in an area of , and its capital city is Guernica, ...

External links

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Municipal website
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