San Antonio de Padua
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San Antonio de Padua is a city in the Greater Buenos Aires, in Argentina. It is located in Merlo (Partido).
The name commemorates the village founded by Francisco de Merlo in 1755, Villa San Antonio del Camino, named for the Portuguese saint Anthony of Padua. The city is on one of the major rail and road arteries and is well connected to the most important cities of the western Greater Buenos Aires.
Padua is basically a flat, low-rise city, with few buildings over two stories, so the skyline is still dominated by the San Antonio de Padua Church’s spire. The building emerges in the center of a peaceful middle-class neighborhood of white-painted and red-barrel-tiles-roofed houses. The church was inaugurated in 1931 and few years later a Franciscan monastery and a catholic school were erected at its side. The church was built in a Romanesque style and is one of the Padua’s landmark buildings.
The commercial center is around Noguera Avenue, stretching six blocks from the San Antonio de Padua's Railway Station to the east.
The city status was conferred on September 11, 1974 by the Buenos Aires (Province) Legislature.
[edit] External links
[edit] City Portal
- (Spanish) City of San Antonio de Padua
[edit] Sport Clubs
- (Spanish) Club Atlético San Antonio de Padua
- (Spanish) CASA de Padua Rugby Club
- (Spanish) Ituzaingó Golf Club
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