The sarcophagus of Ithaco and the Royal pantheon of Oviedo.

The sarcophagus of Ithacio is currently the only surviving vestige of the times of the Asturian monarchy in the funerary church of Santa Maria, located in Oviedo. It was the king Alfonso II (r. 791-842) who developed an intense urbanizing program that transformed Oviedo into a sacred city, where the church of Santa Maria became the centre of the cult of the royal remembrance. Despite its complex historical context and due to its total transformation and the consequent loss of the early medieval factory, Santa Maria has always been linked to royal power and it has always possessed a strong symbolic character.