Facts About Ronda:
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Ronda’s most famous son, Pedro Romero, changed the face of bullfighting.
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Ronda is situated in a mountainous area about 750 m (2,460 ft) above mean sea level.
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Ronda is twinned with: Cuenca, Spain; Chefchaouen, Morocco; Castiglion Fiorentino, Italy & Ontinyent, Spain.
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Ronda was used as the setting for the flower market in the 2017 animated movie Ferdinand.
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Ronda is a village in the Spanish province of Málaga.
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The population of Ronda is about 35,000 inhabitants.
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The mountains around Ronda were a popular hideout for bandits in the 19th century
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American artists Ernest Hemingway and Orson Welles spent many summers in Ronda as part-time residents of Ronda’s old-town quarter called La Ciudad. Their collective accounts have contributed to Ronda’s popularity over time.
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English painter David Bomberg lived and worked in Ronda in the 1950s, producing some of the finest landscapes of Spain.
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The Ronda train station was opened in 1892.
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Ronda is one of the most beautiful and famous towns in Andalusia. It is also a place famous for its high-quality cuisine and delicious dishes.
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The first people to settle here were the Celtics.
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The Puente Nuevo is the newest and largest of three bridges that span the 120-meter-deep chasm that carries the Guadalevín River and divides the city of Ronda.
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Ronda is accessible via highways (Autovía A-374) and by rail from Algeciras and from Córdoba. A direct train from Madrid to Ronda operates twice daily.
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Popular 70s Spanish TV Show “Curro Jimenez”, was filmed in the Ronda Mountains.
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The town occupies the site of an ancient Iberian settlement and was known in Roman times as Acinipo.
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In 1994, Queen of Pop Madonna shot her music video “Take a Bow” in the Ronda Bullring.
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Ronda is surrounded by national parks; one of them, Los Alcornocales Natural Park, is one of Spain’s most important cork-oak forests.
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Ronda is home to Spain’s oldest Bullring, s stone Neoclassic structure. It’s now a museum.
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The town is situated on two hills divided by a deep ravine containing the Grande River, which is an affluent of the Guadiaro River.