Top 10 places to visit in Ronda During Your Stay | Ronda, the City of Dreams in Andalusia,…

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Top 10 places to see in Ronda https://rondatoday.com/things-to-do-in-ronda-during-your-stay/ Top 10 places to visit in Ronda During Your Stay | Ronda, the City of Dreams in Andalusia,… Explore Ronda and discover her charms, abd better yet stay for a night to really see our wonderful little city after the day trippers have left for the day. … Read more

Moorish Ronda 711 till 1066

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Arab baths in Ronda

In 711 AD, an Arab prince named Musa Ben Nusayr conquered most of Iberia and parts of southern France for the Ummayad Caliphate. A captain in the Berber army, Zaide Ben Kesadi El Sebseki, realising the importance of Ronda as a fortress managed to negotiate a peaceful surrender of the city in August of that year, and henceforth Ronda was known as Izn-Rand Onda which in the Arabic of the day meant “City of the Castle”, and became capital of the Cora of Takurunna of the Córdoba Emirate.

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Griffon Vulture of the Serranía

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Griffon Vulture Soaring

A colossus in our mountains! With a wingspan of 2.8 metres and weighing 8 kilos, that’s 9 foot and 17lbs in old money, Griffon Vultures Gyps fulvus is our largest resident raptor here in the Serranía de Ronda and Sierra de Grazalema.

Essentially a specialist carrion eater, this enormous bird is spectacular and the most easily seen raptor in our mountains. Throughout Spain, this species has increased steadily over the past 15 years by the provision of feeding stations, the last official census carried out to ascertain the number of breeding birds put the population at 17,000 pairs.

Why not take a day out with Wildside Holidays to discover the wildlife of the Sierra de Grazalema

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