Situated in what we could call “Humid Andalucia” Ronda offers the visitor endless alternatives: rugged mountainous country, with peaks, caves and deep cliffs like the deep fissure of Gesm, considered the third deepest in the world, with its more than 1.100 metres in depth; extensive forests of conifers, where we find that fir tree so outstanding and endemic that is the Spanish Fir tree, grouped within the Natural Park of “La Sierra de las Nieves”; “Sierra Bermeja”, just as much a refuge for the Pine trees; “Sierra Crestellina”, paradise for the Griffon vulture and a great variety of birds of prey.

It seems to lie halfway between reality and legend due to its geographical reality, his history wrote by bullfighters and bandits makes Ronda an active head of an important administrative district of Malaga in which it is possible to enjoy of a wide repertoire of monuments.

Here theres the river of Guadalevin runs through the city and dividing it in two. Its riverbed, in a silent and age- old task, has been perforating the one hundred metre, deep Tajo that today is one of the distinguishing marks of the city.

On one side we find the new Ronda, wide and bright, with its historic bullring and on the other side, we take the older and more intimate Ronda, were we can find quiet palaces and churches and places like “La Plaza de la Duquesa de Parcent”, which is overlooked by the Collegiate Church of Santa Maria de la Encarnación, a temple of complex architecture, since on the remains of what once was an Arabic mosque, rises the Gothic temple and the colossal, Renaissance church, the Town Hall, with a simple but beautiful and extremely long balcony on its top floor, minaret towers like the one of San Sebastián; palaces like “El Mondragón”, “La Casa del Rey Moro” and “El Salvatierra”; Renaissance, Baroque, Gothic churches; the well- conserved, ancient Arabic baths; the gates of the old walls like the Arabic one of Almocabar, fountains like the one of “Los Ocho Canos” or gates like the ones of Felipe V.

Ronda celebrates in September the festivities of “Pedro Romero”, with the colourful, goyesque bullfight and the flamenco festival. But there are other festivities of some importance like: the majestic Holy Week, the feasts of la Reconquista or “la Romería de Ntra. Sra. De la Cabeza”, on the second Sunday in June.

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