Glew is a city in southern Almirante Brown Partido

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 129.33 km²  and 555,731 inhabitants , and its capital is Adrogué....

, Buenos Aires Province

Buenos Aires Province

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, Argentina

Argentina

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. Its municipal area of 17.65 square kilometre holds a population of 57,878 . Its located 34 km (21 mi) from Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...

 city, and connected to it by the Ferrocarril General Roca

Ferrocarril General Roca

Ferrocarril General Roca , named after the former Argentine president Julio Argentino Roca, was one of the six state-owned Argentine railway companies formed after President Juan Perón's nationalisation of the railway network in 1948...

.

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

Estância

Estância is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Sergipe. Its population was 62,218 and its area is 642 km². The city is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Estância....

 there. He donated land for the extension of the Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway

Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway

The Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway was one of the Big Four broad gauge, , British-owned companies that built and operated railway networks in Argentina...

 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

Raúl Soldi was an Argentine painter whose work treated various subjects, including landscapes, portraits, the theater and the circus, and nature. His theatrical figures are renowned for their melancholy appearance...

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

Borders

• North: Town of Longchamps
  Longchamps, Buenos Aires
  Longchamps is a city in Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina, located about 30 km south of Buenos Aires, in the Almirante Brown Partido ....
  
  
• East: Town of Ministro Rivadavia
• West: Esteban Echeverria Partido
  Esteban Echeverría Partido
  Esteban Echeverría Partido is a partido located in the Gran Buenos Aires urban area, in Buenos Aires Province in Argentina.The provincial subdivision has a population of about 298,814 inhabitants in an area of , and its capital city is Monte Grande, which is located from Buenos Aires.The partido...
  
  
• South: Presidente Perón Partido
  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 120.73km², and its capital city is Guernica, which is located around 38km from Buenos...