Tineo

Tineo lies in the hills of western Asturias on the old pilgrimage route from Oviedo to Santiago. In 1222 Alfonso IX granted it the privileges of a royal town and ordered pilgrims travelling this way to pass through Tineo and the monastery of Obona. The route brought travellers and religious foundations to the district. The Franciscan church, founded in the later thirteenth century, became a place of worship and burial for local families in the centuries that followed.