Ronda is also famous as the birthplace of modern bullfighting. Perhaps you will glimpse the spectacular Feria Goyesca, held at the beginning of September, where fighters and some of the audience dress in the manner of Goya's sketches of life in the region. You can look down onto the bullring, Plaza de Toros, which is now a museum.

Across the bridge, you will see an elegant cloistered 16th century convent which is now an art museum, and old Ronda, La Ciudad, sidewinds off into cobbled streets hemmed by handsome town mansions, some still occupied by Ronda's titled families. The Palacio Mondragón still has working vestiges of the exquisite miniature water gardens dating from its time as a Moorish palace during Ronda's brief reign as a minor Caliphate under Córdoba in the 12th century.

Above Ronda's loveliest public space, the leafy Plaza Duquesa de Parcent, you will see a convent, two churches, including the toytown belltower of the Santa Maria de Mayor, and the handsome arched ayuntamiento (council) building. Gaze down onto the Plaza del Campillo and overlook steps that zigzag down to a dramatic eye-level through the Puente Nuevo.