Anyone planning to visit Ronda in central Andalucia should be at least reasonably familiar with the city's monuments and icons so you know exactly what to look for to really enjoy their
HOLIDAY RENTALS IN SPAIN. Ronda is a small town and all of the sightseeing and monuments are located in the Square Mile, but it can still be difficult to see everything.
Among the most important icons of Ronda not to be missed are the Plaza de Toros, the New Bridge, the Palace of Mondragon, the Arabic baths and the mediaeval city walls. A tour route that includes these five important monuments will also pass by the Minaret of San Sebastian, the church of La Merced, the peak eight-source, the Cathedral of Santa Maria, Home of the Giants and the House of the Moorish King.
The first Bull Ring (Plaza de Toros) is considered the most important historic bullring in Spain and style of the house Rondeo, with the bullfighter on foot instead of horseback. The structure only seats 5000 people but has the largest area of sand in the world. It was built entirely of cut stone on the spot and then plastered and whitewashed. The arena is open to the public and these days it only hosts bullfights.
The New Bridge (Puente Nuevo) is the largest of several bridges spanning the amazing Tajo de Ronda precipice that divides the city into two. The bridge was built of stone Quaria throat and stands 98 metres high with an impressive central arch and a room under the bridge. In the past it has been a hotel, bar and prison but today it is a small museum.
The Arabic baths are considered the most complete in Spain though they no longer work. They offer a tantalizing glimpse of the Islamic era in Andalucia, where Ronda was firmly under their control. Visitors can see the tower in which a donkey could walk and turn a crank that feeds cold water to the baths, where it overheats and is distributed in the three bathrooms. Hot sweat removes impurities, massage and hot soak and cold to cool.
Mondragon Palace is a palace of the 13th century that archaeologists believe was a Moorish house of Ronda King Abomelik. Ronda was the capital of a great kingdom in southern Al-Andalus. Today the palace houses the city museum with displays from the Neolithic, Roman, Arabic and Christian past.
Medieval walls, with many ports and Islamic arches, towers and defensive long stretches, in impregnable stone surround the old town and it would take at least an hour to go around it all. The most impressive pieces are placed on Almocabar in the Barrio de San Francisco, Calle Santa Barbara, and the flour mills in ruins near the Puente Nuevo.
With so much to see and do is there any wonder why so many people have their
HOLIDAY RENTALS IN SPAIN in a town such as Ronda.
