Escape to Malaga’s most visited city, Ronda, at seven highlights

The watchtower at the top of a plateau that appears to have been cut with a knife by the Guadalevín river gorge is Ronda. A fantasy only 100 kilometers from Malaga and the third most visited city in Andalusia. It lacks neither beauty nor history. Celts, Phoenicians, Romans, Arabs and Christians, who founded Arunda in the 6th century, passed through here. Now it’s just you left because the place is great for getaways.

Round you should see it in place, at least once in a lifetime. Washington Irving, Prosper Mérimée, and Paul Gustave Doré were writers who managed to romanticize their travels in this millennial town in the 19th century. Even Rainer Maria Rilke settled there for two months in the 20th century. renaming it “dream city”.

“I searched everywhere for the city of my dreams and finally found it in Ronda… There is nothing more unexpected in Spain than this. wild and mountain city“, the Czech poet wrote about this walled city wrapped in legends of bandits and bullfighters. We tell you the tricks you should visit for a getaway, so that the same feelings awaken in you.

new bridge

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Undoubtedly its most universal symbol is the impressive New Bridge, which connects the old city with the new. A cliff 100 meters deep. Vertigo, which was completed in 1793 by leaning forward while passing over it, is the same today.

Ronda Arena

Ronda is the cradle of modern bullfights, so it’s no surprise that it’s here. The oldest and most monumental bullfighting arena in Spain. An elegant square from the late 17th century, where the famous Goyesque bullfights have been held every September since 1954. They were trapped in this painter’s time.

Almocabar Gate

South of Ronda, in the San Francisco neighborhood are the remnants of the Muslim walls and the grand Puerta de Almocábar. It dates from the 13th century and was the entrance to the city from the south during the time of the Arabs. At the foot of the wall we also find the Arabian baths of Ronda. A bath of the thirteenth century The best preserved from the Arabian period in the entire Iberian Peninsula.

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Mondragon Palace

This Mudejar-Renaissance palace was the residence of the Andalusian kings of the Ronda Taifa and later the governors of the Nasrid kingdom of Granada… until the Catholic Monarchs took over the city in 1485. Ronda Archaeological Museum, Worth a visit to wander around its beautiful inner courtyards..

House of the Moorish King

Although travelers can’t access it 17th century neomudejar househas beautiful terraced gardens designed in 1923 by the French landscape architect Forestier. Also some vertigo stairs from the garden through the garden lead you down to the shores of Guadalevín. And the house is located on the edge of the river gorge.

Alameda del Tajo

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This tree-lined promenade from the early 19th century features examples from more than 200 years ago and overlooks the famous Tajo or Ronda pass with stunning views of Serranía. The best point is the so-called Pussy point of viewIt’s called that because that’s what people who look at it usually say the first word.

Church of Santa Maria la Mayor

Built on the old main mosque of Ronda, this 14th century church It still preserves Arab elements such as the ruins of the mihrab. It is in the Gothic style, although elements from later periods such as the Renaissance choir or the Baroque altar of the Virgen del Mayor Dolor stand out.

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In addition, traditional local gastronomy is another monument in itself. I mean, after I kicked Ronda and made her nauseous, Plaza del Socorro and surrounding streets for tapas on multiple terraces.

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