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To trace the origins of Oviedo, we would have to go back to the 8th century when two monks, Maximo, and his nephew, Fromestano, perhaps fleeing the Arab invasion of the Iberian Peninsula, chose a hill in the central valleys of Asturias, delimited by streams, to found a monastery in honour of St. Vincent.

That area was then known as Oveto, a name whose original meaning is unknown but around which many legends have grown.

One of them involves King Fruela, considered the founding monarch of the city, who went out one day to hunt with friends. At lunchtime, the king chose an idyllic spot, a valley at the foot of a mountain. Then, someone asked the monarch a question:

Sire, where will you build the court of your kingdom?” Fruela, without hesitating, answered in Latin: Ubi edo, “Where I eat”