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New Year's Eve 2005 / New Year 2006 at Ronda
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![]() 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 |