New Year's Eve 2005 / New Year 2006 at Ronda

The above tiles found on the exterior of a buiding depict Ronda as it was perhaps a century ago. Our hotel is located just above the still-very-active bullring, left center. The Puente Nuevo (new bridge, built something over 200 years ago) stands at center, connecting the city center with the old Moor city at right.

The Puente Nuevo; la Ciudad, the old Moorish city, at right

Puente Nuevo, continued: 120 meters high; wide angle lens required for single photo

Alice, Tom, Liz, Elaine examine view from the new city

Tom commented that he wouldn't have wanted to be the stone mason for that cliff work below Ed.

Tom, hotel

During the Spanish Civil War, a group of fascists were rounded-up, beaten and thrown off of the Cliff at this spot on the Moor side, next to Puente Nuevo, an incident recounted in For Whom the Bell Tolls.

Alice apparently is thumbing her nose at somebody, whereas Liz is more circumspect.

Old Moorish Castle walls

The gorge opposite the side depicted on the tiles

Looking in the direction opposite the previous shot, we see the Puente Árabe, the Arab Bridge.

The new city from the Moorish castle

Ditto

The crew, minus Elaine: Ed, Tom, Alice Matt, Liz

The new city, valley on the "tile" side

Vital supplies at the Ronda train station