This trip can be made starting from Malaga, Granada or Seville. We include this trip on our standard group tours of al-Andalus, either at start after viewing Gibraltar and on the way up to Cordoba; or on the later portion of the tour, using a day for it on our way from Sevilla to Granada. Either way it is easy to appreciate the importance of the mountains of Grazalema and Sierra de las Nieves. Scenery for the mytical advance of Tariq and Musa into the Iberian Peninsula. Moreover these where the former border lines of the last Muslim Kingdom of al-Andalus, Granada. It was due to the defensive towns such as Antequera, Ronda or Tarifa, that the Kingdom of Granada lasted some 250 years after Cordoba and Seville had already fallen to Spanish Cristian Kings.
At Ronda we will find a very well conserved medina within a unique emplacement on the top of a 130m canyon over the river Guadalevin. To make it easyer for us to view such a city in just a few hours, your local guide will walk you through town and depending on your interest and energy levels to get up and down the hilly village you will be able to visit: A modern local Museum at an old Nazari small palace in the medina, containing a multimedia presentation with the history of Ronda in under 25 minutes. A historical Muslim palace since inhabited by different aristocrats of the upper Andalusian over the Reinaissance period. The palace still preserves what they call 'the mine', a tunnelled staircase which takes the walker right down through the rock, to the river bed. The tunnel still preserves defensive rooms which we meet as we descend. These boiling rooms where used to boil hot water and oil in order to poor it over any enemy approach. Further down we can reach the Nazari Hammams, by the old bridge and main entrance to the medina. By the hammam we can find the location of an old Muslim cementery and if we are to walk out we can get back around the old town walls, up a few steps and back to the town centre before continuing the trip home to Granada (or Cordoba according to your trip plan).





















