Sarón is the largest town in

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, a municipality in

Cantabria Cantabria (, also , , Cantabrian: ) is an autonomous community in northern Spain with Santander as its capital city. It is called a ''comunidad histórica'', a historic community, in its current Statute of Autonomy. It is bordered on the east ...

, Spain. It was founded in 1876 in a road intersection by a landowner from nearby La Abadilla, whose name was Antonio Saro y Galbán. The name of the town comes from his first surname. In the town of La Penilla, 2 kilometres away, there is a

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factory, which was the first one to open in Spain in 1905. One of the oldest buildings still standing in Sarón is the market, built in 1929. As of 2020, its population was 3 220 people, of which 50.7% are male and 49.3% female.

Notable people

* José Manuel Fernández García, music composer, born in 1956

References

Populated places in Cantabria 1876 establishments in Spain {{Spain-geo-stub