Rafael Calzada is an Argentine

city A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It can be def ...

( es, ciudad) within the

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 ...

, 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 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 ...

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 Spanish settlement in Argentina, that is the arrival of Spanish emigrants in Argentina, took place first in the period before Argentina's independence from Spain, and again in large numbers during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Betwee ...

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 (in honor of the founder's widow) since 1954, and the Dr. Arturo Oñativia Emergency Hospital since 1996. Santisima Trinidad Rafael Calzada

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