Ronda is perched high on a rock, surrounded by cliffs, and divided into two parts by a 295 feet deep gorge.
For the Moors, the town was impregnable for many centuries. The town was taken by the Spaniards in 1485, seven years before Granada fell.
El Tajo (the ravine) divides Ronda into the whitewashed La Ciudad (the old Moorish town) and El Mercadillo (the new town). The Puento Nuevo (New Bridge) was built from 1751-1793, after the previous bridge fell.
The Plaza de Toros is one of the oldest in Spain (1785) and the birthplace of modern bullfighting. The Ronda bullring was the first great Spanish bullring.
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