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Banfield is a city in the district of Lomas de Zamora in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, 14km south of the centre of Buenos Aires. It forms part of the Greater Buenos Aires metro area.HistoryIn 1873 Banfield railway station, named after the Englishman Edward Banfield, the first general manager of the British-owned Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway (Ferrocarril del Sud), was opened. On August 19, 1873, the first plots of land in the area were advertised for sale and extensive development took place from the 1880s onwards.SportsThe city is home to Club Atlético Banfield football club founded in 1896, and to the Lomas Athletic Sports Club.CultureIt is the base of the Julián Aguirre Conservatory of Music, founded by classical composer and conductor Alberto Ginastera in 1951.The writer Julio Cortázar, though born in Belgium, spent much of his childhood in Banfield. Banfield was also home of the renowned tango composer Alfredo De Angelis and the popular singer Sandro.