Rafael Calzada, Buenos Aires
Rafael Calzada is an Argentine city within the Almirante Brown Partido, which is located in the Greater Buenos Aires conurbation, Argentina. It has an area of 5.14 km² and a population of 56,419. The city is linked with Buenos Aires by a railway station having the same name; both electric and diesel services stop at the station. It is also served by a number of buses that converge into the train station, and connect it with neighbour cities, as well as with Buenos Aires.It was officially founded on
18 July 1909 by Dr. Rafael Calzada, a
Spanish Argentine attorney and
legal theorist. The suburban bedroom community's principal architectural landmark, The
Church of the Holy Trinity, was designed by local architect Juan Fogeler in
1922, and consecrated in
1933.
The church was
designated as a parish in 1951. The community has been served by the
Celina González Peña de Calzada Library since 1954, and the Dr. Arturo Oñativia
Emergency Hospital since 1996.
