Ronda

Ronda crowns a rocky plateau cut by the deep gorge of the Guadalevín. Its walls and gates recall the town’s Muslim past and its place within the Nasrid kingdom until the Catholic Monarchs took it in 1485. Centuries later the growing town needed a new crossing over the gorge. The great Puente Nuevo was completed in 1793, joining the old city to the Mercadillo on the opposite side.