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

---

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.

---

Size: 3225px × 4837px
Location: Obona, Asturias, Spain
Photo credit: © Paul Christian Gordon / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: abandoned, antiquity, asturias, camino, catholic, christian, church, de, dilapidated, doorway, europe, green, heritage, iberia, james, la, labyrinth, marí, monastery, narcea, obona, overgrown, pilgrimage, primitive, primitivo, real, roman, romanesque, rubble, ruin, ruined, rural, rustic, santa, santiago, site, spain, st., stone, unesco, wall, weeds, window, world