Villa Ballester

34°31′S 58°32′W / 34.517°S 58.533°W / -34.517; -58.533Country

ArgentinaProvince

Buenos AiresPartido San MartínFounded26 October 1889Elevation

26 m (85 ft)Population

(2001 census [INDEC])

• Total35,301CPA Base

B 1653

Area code+54 11Websitehttp://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.^[1]

Sports

The city received international attention as one of the host cities of the 1990 FIBA World Championship.^[2]

Notable residents

Juliana Awada (born 1974), First Lady of Argentina
Alejandro Awada (born 1961), actor
Ceferino Carnacini (1888–1964), painter
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^[3]
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
Beatriz Zavatarelli de Gamba (b.1926), author and poet

References

^ "Deutscher Bundestag 4. Wahlperiode Drucksache IV/3672" (Archived 2016-03-12 at the Wayback Machine). Bundestag (West Germany). 23 June 1965. Retrieved on 12 March 2016. p. 16/51.
^ 1990 World Championship for Men, Archive.FIBA.com, Retrieved 18 March 2016.
^ José Carreras talks about the death of Luciano Pavarotti.