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Villa Ballester

City in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina

Summary

City in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina

Field	Value
settlement_type	City
official_name	Villa Ballester
image_skyline	Vista Ballester.jpg
imagesize	200px
image_caption	Villa Ballester (east side)
pushpin_map	Argentina Greater Buenos Aires
pushpin_label_position	bottom
pushpin_map_caption	Location in Greater Buenos Aires
pushpin_mapsize	240
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name
subdivision_type1	Province
subdivision_name1	[[File:Bandera Buenos Aires.svg	24px]] Buenos Aires
subdivision_type2	Partido
subdivision_name2	San Martín
established_title	Founded
established_date	26 October 1889
population_as_of
population_total	35,301
coordinates
elevation_m	26
postal_code_type	CPA Base
postal_code	B 1653
area_code	+54 11
website	http://www.sanmartin.gov.ar

Villa Ballester is a city located in the northern Greater Buenos Aires urban area and it is part of the General San Martín Partido in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It is served by the Línea Mitre commuter railway with its station also named Villa Ballester. Founded on 26 October 1889.

History

Pedro Ballester (4 December 1849 – 5 September 1928) started the development of the town in the late 1880s in some fields occupied by his family, the chacra Miguel Ballester y Flotat. A key factor for the success of the new town was the train which provided fast access to Buenos Aires. The town was named after the commercial partnership between Pedro Ballester and Guillermo Lacroze, "Sociedad Villa Ballester".

Education

Hölters Schule, a German school, is in Villa Ballester. It was once recognized as a German school by the West German government.

Sports

The city received international attention as one of the host cities of the 1990 FIBA World Championship.

Notable people

Juliana Awada (born 1974), First Lady of Argentina
Alejandro Awada (born 1961), actor
Annemarie Heinrich (1912–2005), German-born photographer
Carlos Ripamonte (1874–1968), painter
Fernando Siro (1931–2006), film actor, film director and screenwriter
Helmut Ditsch (born 1962), painter
José Carreras (born 1946), Spanish tenor, lived in Villa Ballester for a year during his childhood
José Hernández (1834–1886), journalist and poet, born at the Pueyrredón Chacra on 10 November 1834
Luis César Amadori (1920–1977), film director, married to Zully Moreno
Roberto De Vicenzo (1923–2017), former professional golfer and The Open Championship winner

References

"[http://dipbt.bundestag.de/doc/btd/04/036/0403672.pdf Deutscher Bundestag 4. Wahlperiode Drucksache IV/3672]" ({{webarchive. link. (2016-03-12 ). [[Bundestag]] (West Germany). 23 June 1965. Retrieved on 12 March 2016. p. 16/51.)
[https://web.archive.org/web/20230910203105/https://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/event/p/sid/2912/_/index.html 1990 World Championship for Men], Archive.FIBA.com, Retrieved 18 March 2016.
[https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:eqgDDpnOW6MJ:mundo.com.uy/2PDF/%3FID%3D0%26URL%3D2010/04/22-jose-carreras-34sera-dificil-reemplazar-a-pavarotti34+jose+carreras+vivio+en+argentina&hl=es&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESgGW2bKQ_-UiunAJgcPLcfnS6Z_fnGbfQs4IiwWldfPcthgNLPzeRLc8X7s3CsT7_RdeIbKK4akOTKMOgRz0sWH9W68d4pp99cx1DS9feMFVSwKfBnnTXYJdU0o9mX-JQDorCD4&sig=AHIEtbSenG_oQ_ueA2SaUeLZqLzfU1OtEQ José Carreras talks about the death of Luciano Pavarotti.]

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