Logbook · 3 places

The asphodel that gave the village its name

Gamones, Sayago, Zamora

1 Villages · 1 Monuments · 1 Curiosities

Spain › Castile and León › Zamora › Sayago › Gamones › The asphodel that gave the village its name

The asphodel that gave the village its name

Curiosity · Gamones, Sayago, Zamora

Image of Gamones, not of the place itself.

Tradition attributes to the Cistercian monks the introduction of the asphodel in the middle of the twelfth century, and from that plant the place took its name; Miguel Delibes set his novel El tesoro in a fictional Gamones.

Photo: LBM1948 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

What to see and do in Gamones