Padua is bordered by the partido of Ituzaingó (north and east), other localidades of Merlo (west and southwest) and Libertad (south).

The commercial center is around the main avenue, Avenida Noguera, stretching six blocks from the railroad station, Estación San Antonio de Padua to the east.

In order to reach the golf course the company opened a railway stop in 1923, just 10 meters from the club house.

In the opening ceremony participated members of the catholic clergy and the railway stop was consecrated to Saint Anthony of Padua.

The town started in the 1930s with the first houses built around the railway station and the opening of the parish church in 1931; San Antonio de Padua grew steadily over the decades and it bloomed in the 1950s.