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A drive around 2 hours west from Chilches, you will find Ronda.
Ronda is one of the more exciting resorts on the Costa del Sol. Here you will meet Andalusian culture and history, more than anywhere else in the region. And at the same time you will experience a magnificent nature.
 A trip to Ronda is an exciting experience for all senses - both visually and culturally. The road up to Ronda is one of the most beautiful and varied mountain routes, you can experience in Spain. The trip goes through a wild mountain scenery and high up on a large rock mass, with the Serrania de Ronda Mountains spread before it, lies Ronda.
A 160 meters deep and up to 90 meter wide gorge called Tagus river Guadalevin dividing the city into the old Moorish centre La Ciudad and district Mercadillo north, brought by the Christians. It is exciting to see how the houses on both sides of the rocks located to the edge of the vertically faced rock walls. We call them casas colgadad (hanging houses).
Ronda can, thanks to its impregnability, look back on a long fascinating history. In fact, it is in the area around Ronda, some of the oldest traces of human habitation in Europe were found.
 Puento the Nuevo
One of the 1700-century masterpieces of Engineering art is Puenta Nueva Ronda landmark that rises above the mighty pillars Guadalevins swallowed, and which therefore constitutes the bridge between the two towns.
Its aqueduct-like edifice has one lower and three upper arms from where; there is a magnificent view against Tajo ravine bottom.
In the space above the top mist lays what was then an escape proof prison, out of which nationalist sympathizers were pushed to their deaths during the Spanish civil war - a tragic event which Ernest Hemingway portrays in 'For Whom the Bell tolls"
La Maestranza
Rondas perhaps most famous building is the historic La Maestranza bullring, one of the oldest and most charming in Spain.
The arena, which originates from 1785, is surrounded by rows of arcade on two floors, with Tuscan columns and will accommodate 5,000 people.
Here Hemingway had his own gallery.
The arena is owned today by Ronda Royal Knights, whose weapons are seen on the gable of the Baroque gateway. Those who want to know more about Spain's oldest arena can look into the small museum, which include show costumes and lots of bullfighting memories. You can also read about Francisco Romero, his son and grandson Juan Pedro, the founders of the legendary bullfighter dynasty, which established the rules of bullfighting, which are applicable today.
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