Antonio Alonso Santodomingo

Juan Antonio Alonso Santodomingo (1844 – 10 February 1917) was a Spanish businessman in the canning sector, and founder of the Palacio de Oriente canning company. He was the pioneer of the Galician canning industry.

Biography Antonio Alonso was born in Bayona, Galicia, in 1844, as the son of Juan Antonio Alonso Castro and Rosalía Santodomingo. In 1862, the 18-year-old Alonso emigrated to Havana, when the country was under the sovereignty of the Spanish Empire, where he remained working until 1881 as a commercial intermediary between Cuba and the metropolis (Spain). who went on to become a doctor known for his humanitarian work during the Spanish Civil War and Second World War.