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RONDA
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Copyright: Franco Degani (degani) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 191 W: 0 N: 279] (2422)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2006-04-19
Categories: Nature, Architecture
Camera: Nikon D-50
Exposure: f/3.8, 1/640 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2008-02-27 9:02
Viewed: 746
Points: 16
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Ronda is a city in the Spanish province of Málaga. It is located about 100 km from the city of Málaga, within the autonomous community of Andalucía. Its population is 35,512. It is also accessible by rail from Algeciras and from Córdoba.
Ronda is situated in a very mountainous area about 750 m above mean sea level. The Rio Guadalevín runs through the city, dividing it in two and carving out the steep El Tajo canyon upon which the city is perched. Ronda was first settled by the early Celts, but its Roman and then Moorish rulers are reflected most prominently in its architecture. The forces of Catholic Spain took control of the town in 1485.
Three bridges, Puente Romano ("Roman Bridge", also known as the Puente San Miguel), Puente Viejo ("Old Bridge", also known as the Puente Arabe or "Arab Bridge") and Puente Nuevo ("New Bridge"), span the canyon. The term "nuevo" is a bit of a misnomer, since this bridge was completed in 1793. The Puente Nuevo is the tallest of the bridges, towering 120 meters above the canyon floor, and all three serve as some of the city's most impressive features.
Another important site in Ronda is the Plaza de Toros, the oldest bullfighting ring in Spain that is still used, albeit infrequently. It was built in 1784 in the Neoclassical style by the architect José Martin de Aldehuela, who also designed Puente Nuevo.
The partially intact baños árabes ("Arab baths") are found below the city and date back to the 13th and 14th centuries. Both the Sufi scholar Salih ben Sharif al-Rundi (1204-1285) and the poet Ibn Abbad al-Rundi (1333-1390) were born in Ronda.
Ernest Hemingway and Orson Welles resided in Ronda for many years, and both wrote about its beauty, contributing to its popularity.
Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls describes the murder of Nationalist sympathizers early in the Spanish Civil War by being thrown from cliffs in a Castillian village, allegedly based on the killings that took place on Ronda's cliffs of El Tajo by the Republican forces.
The name of the eponymous Jewish hero of George Eliot's well-known novel Daniel Deronda seems to indicate that his ancestors lived in Ronda prior to the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492.
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  • jorgi Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 781 W: 124 N: 546] (2469)
  • [2008-02-27 9:40]
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Oooo Ronda!

How I loved Ronda! No, I still love Ronda! I loved the time spending there, short but so sweet. Just for one day, stayed in my memory for eternity! I like your view. Not typical, not usually seen view of Ronda. You are above, we can see clifs and we can see most beautiful landscape there is. Endless fields of olive trees, this small filigran patterns on redish soil, depends on time of year, changing their colours, not so much green but still very green and in the middle, just there at the end of clifs, there is a white village and nothing below. Trully marveloous place. I must come back here some day. I must. Thank you Franco.

Kind regards,
Jeri

che bella composizione curiosa ! davvero un bello scatto!

One of my favourite places ever! Can't wait to be there again ... Andalucia, probably one of the most magical places on earth! I am sure I lived there in a previous existance.

Lovely shot ... brings back fond memories.

Thank you

Marc

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  • coco Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 4186 W: 145 N: 4970] (23464)
  • [2008-02-27 13:40]

Hi Franco.

Excellent picture with an amazing and very spanish village.
I love the composition and the colours of the photo.

Well done.

Ciao Franco ,
ecco la citta che ha ispirato i disegnatori della seat ronda .....
bellissima vista su questa stupenda citta' .
ottimo lavoro
Giorgio

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  • crckt Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1402 W: 68 N: 1315] (6815)
  • [2008-02-27 18:21]

Hi Franco!
WOW! This one is so picturesque! I love the setting here, the trees, the houses, I just wish you posted a bigger file though.
Regards,
Shaeri

Ciao FRanco, splendida vista dall'alto di questa bella città e della magnifica natura che la circonda, bravo, ciao Silvio

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  • AKITA Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 220 W: 29 N: 71] (2186)
  • [2008-02-29 9:41]

Dear Franco,
this valley is like the abyss in our minds...
in the peaceful flat with mild hills, suddenly it opens the deep mouth...
cold water is always streaming in this bottom, it is always washing away our memories which is good or bad.
thank you for your suggestive landscape with impressive valley,
AKihisa

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