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    • SirHenry-macht-Urlaub.deAb in den Süden
      Day 13

      Ronda

      January 7, 2020 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 12 °C

      Málaga- Ronda ca. 118 km
      Nach einer etwas unruhigen Nacht, Spanier mussten wieder feiern, sind wir früh am morgen Richtung Ronda aufgebrochen. Die Fahrt war gut, die Landschaft noch besser, jedoch die Straße eine Katastrophe.
      Aber egal wir haben es geschafft. Der Stellplatz liegt ca. 2,5 km außerhalb, es heißt immer so schön , fußläufig, allerdings sollte man wirklich gut zu Fuß sein, sonst macht das keinen Spass. Wir sind alles in allem mehr als 9 km gelaufen und jetzt sind wir ganz schön platt, einschließlich Hund.      Read more

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    • Nadine und DominikAndalusien 1.10. - 7.10.2022
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      Day 6

      Ausblick vom Mirador de Aldehuela

      October 6, 2022 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C

      Nachdem wir den Blick auf die Brücke von der Altstadt aus schon längere Zeit genossen hatten, ging’s über die Brücke auf die Seite der Neustadt um den Blick von dieser Seite auf die Brücke und auch auf die sehr schöne Altstadt zu genießen. Somit hatten wir von dem Aussichtspunkt einen Blick auf die Ponte Nuevo, die Schlucht El Tajo de Ronda und die Häuser der Altstadt entlang der Schlucht. Die Altstadt beeindruckt vor allem mit ihrer Mischung aus nordafrikanischen und spanischen Traditionen. Sehr imposant der gesamte Anblick in Kombination!Read more

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    • TA HAL Oosterdam 2023
      Day 14

      Málaga, Spain: Quick Look @ Ronda

      November 3, 2023 in Spain

      We love Málaga.

      Though we still had places to explore in this charming city, and a sidewalk café near the Central Market where we like to have tapas al fresco, we decided a change of pace would be appropriate for what was our third time in Málaga.

      Thus, we booked a small group public tour through Spain Day Tours that took us further afield … first to Ronda; then to Mijas.

      With the prime berth — right in front of the terminal — given to Celebrity Beyond, we had to take a shuttle from Oosterdam to the terminal. The meeting time for the group was set between 8:15a and 8:29a. We had strict instructions from Spain Day Tours stating that they leave exactly at 8:30a. So, we were on the 8:00a shuttle to give ourselves plenty of leeway. As it turns out, it was our guide Enrique who delayed our departure by 10 minutes, not the tour participants.

      The 65-mile drive to Ronda takes 1.5 hours. Our drive through the Andalusian countryside took more like 2 hours … primarily due to a 20-minute bathroom and refreshment break at Mesón de Diego, which I thought was a bit of an overkill considering the distance.

      Ronda is a town in the mountains. It is perhaps best known for its cliffside location, split into two by the 390-foot deep Tajo Gorge … through which Rio Guadalevin runs. The town is also part of the Sierra de las Nieves National Park, which makes it all the more special. Though there is indication of prehistoric settlements in the area, Ronda was first settled by the Celts in the 6th century BC. A number of other cultures replaced them over the centuries, including the Moors. Finally, the Spaniards permanently conquered the town.

      I first became aware of Ronda when Mui and I took a Spanish class in the late 1990s. One of our assignments was to pick a town and describe “our apartment” there. It was a picture of the town, sitting high behind Puente Nuevo [new bridge], that drew us to using the town for that exercise. I wanted to replicate that picture for myself today. Alas, we did not have time to cross over to the other side of the gorge to get the right perspective.

      We arrived at the Ronda bus station at 10:49a. This was to be our drop off point, Enrique explained … just a short walk into the Old Town. We had just short of two hours to explore the town … not nearly enough for “slow travelers” that we are. C’est la vie.

      Our fleet-footed stroll around Ronda started at Puerto Nuevo … “new” being a matter of perspective since the bridge dates back to 1751-1793. Then we got ourselves lost — on purpose — in the narrow, cobblestone back streets where we got away from the crowds to explore the nooks and crannies of Ronda. We walked along the Murallas de la Cuara, the fortified walls that follow the edge of the cliff, and where the Moors had established their medina. At the end of the path, we were rewarded with fantastic views of Ronda.

      Our meandering path then took us back to the hubbub around Puente Nuevo, following streets that made for charming photo ops. There were several sites of interest along the way, but with our time short, we opted to skip going inside this time. We passed the bullring, wandered into a garden that I believe was part of the grounds of the nearby church, enjoyed Andalusian valley views from an overlook, and made it back to the bus station by 12:45p as requested … with a café-stop that was just long enough for Mui to grab an espresso at the bar.

      A nice exploratory couple of hours that left Ronda on our “return-to-explore-further list.”      Read more

    • TravelerEurope 2019
      Day 23

      Dinner in Ronda

      September 26, 2019 in Spain ⋅ 🌙 23 °C

      We headed out for dinner at 8.30pm, which is still early by Spanish standards. We returned to the same Tapas bar up the street, just 20 metres from our apartment. We tried some new dishes, but also had some of the same dishes we tried at lunch. We sat outside and started chatting to an Irish couple at the next table - they had been in Ronda for several days, and so they gave us some recommendations of things to do and see.

      For dinner we had a large plate of sliced tomatoes (from their Grandad’s garden), a plate of deep fried pardon peppers, and mini hamburgers - which came with Brie and caramelised onion - and were delicious. We also had a couple of other small things - beef with salsa verde, and mushrooms which were also great. We also had several glasses of wine to accompany the meal.

      After dinner, we went for a walk down to the old bridge, but it was pretty dark so we decided to return to the apartment which was all uphill! All this walking is doing my legs and calf muscles a world of good. When we got back home, we found the Bridge lights were on - the Bridge looks pretty impressive lit up.      Read more

    • TravelerEurope 2019
      Day 24

      Museo of Joaquín Peinado

      September 27, 2019 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C

      This was the next museum we came across, and again entry was free. Coincidentally he was born in a house about six doors up from where we are staying.

       Joaquín Ruiz-Peinado Vallejo was born in Ronda on 19 July 1898. He showed early talent, resulting in his enrolment in 1918 at the San Fernando’s College of Fine Arts. He obtained a scholarship for three years to study in the Santa María de el Paular Monastery (1921-1923). Once he finished his studies in 1923 he went to Paris, where he settled. He soon entered the Parisian artistic world and came to form part of the Escuela Española de París (Spanish School of Paris), together with other Spanish artists such as Manuel Ángeles Ortiz, Hernando Viñes, Francisco Bores, Pancho Cossío and Picasso (with whom he shared a special friendship).

      Meanwhile, he maintained contact with his friends back in Spain, one of them being Federico García Lorca, who met Peinado in Málaga in 1918, and also Francisco García Lorca, who was a good friend of his. He kept contributing to the Spanish artistic world, participating in the mythical Society of Iberian Artists’ First Exhibition, celebrated in 1925, and in José María Hinojosa’s La flor de California. Málaga’s Provincial Council gave him and José Moreno Villa an arts award in 1929 at the Regional Exhibition of Modern Art, celebrated in Casa de los Tiros, Granada. He also got involved in Scenic Arts, participating in Un Perro Andaluz (1929), in his friend Buñuel’s La Edad de Oro (1930), and, as a scenographer and an extra, in Carmen de Feyder (1925). In 1926 he participated in the performance of El retablo de Maese Pedro de Falla in Amsterdam, alongside Buñuel, Cossío, Viñes, and Ángeles Ortiz.

      His artistic trajectory gave him a prominent position in the Escuela de París: his merits as an artist led him to hold the post of director and vice-president of the Sección de Pintura de la Unión de Intelectuales Españoles (Painting Art Section of the Spanish Union of Scholars). He was also nominated by UNESCO as delegate for the Sección de Pintores Españoles de la Escuela de París (Spanish Painters Section, School of Paris).

      He organized part of the 1946 exhibition Art in Republican Spain, Spanish artists from Escuela de París, held in Prague. From this moment on, both individual and collective international exhibitions became frequent. He was regarded as part of the best French art producers of the time. 1945 was also a time when he developed a personal style which would remain with him forever: alternating with geometric abstract experiments, he highlighted the importance of the model, the accuracy of the drawing, the rationalization of the representation, and the use of watercolour. An exhibition organized by the State Office of Fine Arts brought him back to Spain in 1969.

      Peinado is a central piece in the revision of contemporary Spanish art and the Escuela de París. His work is also important in the exploration of plastic ways of communication, such as neo-Cubism, Lyrical Figuration or Geometric Abstraction.

      He died in Paris on 13 February 1975. I really enjoyed the exhibition which included a room dedicated to Picasso.      Read more

    • TravelerEurope 2019
      Day 24

      Baños Arabes (The Arab Baths)

      September 27, 2019 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C

      These baths were built in the 11th or 12th centuries. Their functioning parts vanished centuries ago, but the underground chambers have been partly renovated. Ronda’s Arab Baths are similar to Roman baths, except that steam was used to sweat out pollutants from the body, rather than soaking in hot water, as the Romans used to do. Religious traditions were important to he Moors of Spain we, so A Mosque was located next to the baths. The idea was that the people visiting the Baths would purify and cleanse their bodies, before entering the Mosque to purify their souls.

      The main entrance to the complex overlooks the roof of Arab Baths building, and you can see a number of short humps embedded in the roof. These are the star shaped skylights which let the light in. It looks quite cool when you are inside. The baths were built partially underground to better control the temperature of the building. Hot fires in the furnace room heated water coming from an aqueduct, and the hot steam was then “piped” under the floor of the rooms in terracotta channels (atanores), and then exited from chimneys located before it reached the cold rooms.

      The first section of the Baths was the changing room (the al-bayt al-maslaj). It had a central pool about two and a half metres across, with a series of brick arches surrounding it. The pool itself was a drinking fountain, and not a bath as we might think. Around the edges of this room were wooden benches for chatting and socialising, and against the back wall a series of screens that formed changing rooms. There was also a cold room (al-bayt al-barid), where people could relax and cool down before entering the warm and hot rooms. Part of the tradition of these baths was to spend several hours here, and cleansing the body several times over.

      Next was the warm room (al-bayt al-wastami), which was where people could relax and enjoy a massage, be pampered with perfumes, or sit in a pool of slightly warm water. This room was warm but not steamy. Mats and cushions were available to use, as well as wooden benches around the walls, and several tables for massage and therapeutic treatments by trained slaves were situated next to some of the columns. The hot room (al-bayt al-sajun), was the last room. This room has a pool at one end where water from the aqueduct was splashed over the hot floor creating a very humid and steamy atmosphere in the room.      Read more

    • Robert JanzenRoadtrip nach Portugal

      Ronda

      October 26, 2022 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C

      Um nach Ronda zu gelangen müssen wir doch noch einige Kilometer hinter uns bringen. Etwas mehr als zwei Stunden sind wir unterwegs. Unserer erstes Ziel ist die Stierkampfarena, in der einmal im Jahr noch ein Stierkampf ausgetragen wird. Hier erfahren wir, dass auch die Pferdezucht hier eine große Tradition hat. In der Ausstellung sehen und erfahren wir vieles über die Hintergründe.
      Danach wollen wir Churros essen, also die Frauen wollen erst einmal shoppen, aber nach kurzer Zeit ist es dann endlich soweit. Wir bestellen drei Churros mit Schokolade zum dippen. Was wir dann bekommen übertrifft unsere Erwartungen. Nicht die üblichen Sticks befinden sich auf dem Tisch sondern drei riesige Kringel. Wir hegen echte Zweifel diese überhaupt aufessen zu können, aber letztlich bleibt von ihnen nichts über.
      „Jetzt müssen wir aber unbedingt noch zur Schlucht“, sage ich und der Tross setzt sich wieder in Bewegung. Nach nur wenigen hundert Metern kommen wir dort an. Ja das ist schon sehr schön und beeindruckend. Wir machen von allen Seiten Fotos und beschließen auch noch einmal Fotos von unten zu machen. Dafür nehmen wir dann allerdings das Auto. Das Navi hat dabei wieder einmal etwas Probleme und so irren wir im Kreis herum. Am Ende schaffen wir es doch und der Blick von unten ist wirklich noch einmal ganz besonders.
      Von hieraus gehts für uns wieder zurück, es liegt ja noch etwas Weg vor uns.      Read more

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    • Nic, Jess, Sam et FélixPortugal et Espagne
      Day 64

      Ronda

      November 12, 2022 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C

      Aussitôt quitté notre stationnement très ordinaire, on passe près de la bordure en falaise de la ville. C'est déjà pas mal impressionnant. On voit la vallée au bas et les montagnes plus loin. De toutes les beautés comme on dit! On longe donc cette falaise qui est plus tard aménagée en promenade piétonnière. Éventuellement, on débouche sur la partie centrale de la ville: la maintenant petite rivière Guadalevin, qui a creusé jadis une impressionnante crevasse. Pour traverser les gorges en question, les gens ont bâti un pont tout aussi impressionnant, digne d'un décor de Game of Thrones ou du Seigneur des Anneaux! Wow! Le genre de structure qui vous décroche un peu plus la mâchoire à force de la regarder. D'une hauteur de 98 mètres, ses arches sont d'une élégance sans nom. On peut d'ailleurs admirer le pont Neuf (il s'appelle comme ça, plus neuf neuf, mais datant de 1751, c'est relativement récent pour la ville!) de chaque côté avec des promenades aménagées. La marche nous fait encore plus apprécier le pont, mais aussi la ville, construite à même les gorges. Que du wow! On s'arrête pour un rafraîchissement plus tard avant de suivre nos pieds plus loin dans les ruelles de la ville. C'est une chose tellement plaisante que de se perdre dans les ruelles. On ne sait jamais trop sur quoi on va tomber. On voit plusieurs églises et places centrales.

      Éventuellement nos pieds ont quand même le génie de nous ramener au camper pour le souper et la nuit. Ils sont bien entraînés! On ne peut pas parler de coup de cœur à chaque ville qu'on visite, mais sans farce, c'était sincèrement une belle ville encore une fois! Si jamais vous passez dans le coin, pensez à visiter Ronda, vous ne regretterez pas!      Read more

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    • TravelerPortugal & Spain
      Day 7

      Ronda - Puenta Nuevo

      October 6, 2020 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C

      Ronda is in South Andalusia, about 2h away from Gibraltar the most Southern point of Spain. According to some websites, Ronda is thé most beautiful village of Andalucia. About 34.000 inhabitants live there, so it’s mostly knows for its touristical spots, such as the Puenta Nuevo, Plaza de Toros and the Moorish bridge.

      Puenta Nuevo means “new bridge” in English. It’s a scary view with a depth of more than 120m. They started building the bridge in 1735, but 5 years later the bridge crashed along with unfortunate 50 workers. The bridge was finally finished 50 years later in 1793.

      A cruel fact: the bridge contains multiple areas where they used to torture prisoners during the Spanish Civil War (1936 - 1939) and throw them into the deep.      Read more

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