Overgrown cloister at the ruin of the Monastery of Santa María la Real de Obona along the Camino Primitivo. After visiting, King Alfonso IX designated

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Overgrown cloister at the ruin of the Monastery of Santa María la Real de Obona along the Camino Primitivo. After visiting, King Alfonso IX designated the monastery as a place of mandatory passage for pilgrims in the 12th century. This less-traveled route of the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage runs southwest from the Asturian capital of Oviedo, eventually joining the Camino Frances and ending in Santiago de Compostela, Galicia.

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Size: 3612px × 5418px
Location: Obona, Asturias, Spain
Photo credit: © Paul Christian Gordon / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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