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Drove an hour and a bit from Málaga to Ronda this morning.
We hadn't had breakfast yet, so our first stop was a restaurant, "Las Meravillas", where we had the best food of the whole trip so far: a spinach salad with fruit, nuts, and goat cheese en croute, a dish of strips of savory pork with black garlic, and a molten-centered chocolate cake.
Ronda starts out looking like an ordinary whitewashed hill town, with perhaps more tourist shops than most, until you get to The Bridge.
See, the town is built on both sides of a really deep river gorge. Downstream, where the walls are much lower, there were a couple of stone bridges built in the Middle Ages, but up here they apparently needed 18th-century technology to do the job (although the Roman aqueduct in Segovia is of comparable size, and has been standing ten times as long). They built a bridge in the early 18th century, it fell down, they tried again, took fifty years to build it, but it works. The bridge and gorge have been a major tourist attraction for over 200 years now.
It was raining on and off for the whole time we were in Ronda, but we walked down the hill in the Old City to find the Arab Baths, a well-preserved archaeological site.
Then we drove along twisty mountain roads (feeling sorta like the Skyline Drive, only with drier soil and more-stunted trees) south from Ronda
to the coastal resort town of Marbella, where we didn't stop before getting onto the coastal highway back to Málaga. Decompressing in the hotel room now.
We hadn't had breakfast yet, so our first stop was a restaurant, "Las Meravillas", where we had the best food of the whole trip so far: a spinach salad with fruit, nuts, and goat cheese en croute, a dish of strips of savory pork with black garlic, and a molten-centered chocolate cake.
Ronda starts out looking like an ordinary whitewashed hill town, with perhaps more tourist shops than most, until you get to The Bridge.
See, the town is built on both sides of a really deep river gorge. Downstream, where the walls are much lower, there were a couple of stone bridges built in the Middle Ages, but up here they apparently needed 18th-century technology to do the job (although the Roman aqueduct in Segovia is of comparable size, and has been standing ten times as long). They built a bridge in the early 18th century, it fell down, they tried again, took fifty years to build it, but it works. The bridge and gorge have been a major tourist attraction for over 200 years now.
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It was raining on and off for the whole time we were in Ronda, but we walked down the hill in the Old City to find the Arab Baths, a well-preserved archaeological site.
Then we drove along twisty mountain roads (feeling sorta like the Skyline Drive, only with drier soil and more-stunted trees) south from Ronda
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to the coastal resort town of Marbella, where we didn't stop before getting onto the coastal highway back to Málaga. Decompressing in the hotel room now.