Looking for a hostel in Ronda, Spain? Whether you’re a backpacker, solo traveler, or visiting with friends, Ronda has a variety of budget-friendly hostels that offer comfort, convenience, and a chance to meet fellow travelers. From charming historic guesthouses to central hostels with social areas, this guide highlights the best options to make your stay memorable.
Daytrips in Andalucía from Ronda
Daytrips in Andalucía from Ronda by car are fairly easy to most of the major tourist highlights here in Western Andalucia.
Average driving times to towns and cities from Ronda
- Forty five minutes to the Costa del Sol (San Pedro) or Antequera.
- An hour and a half to Seville and Malaga.
- One hour to Jerez de la Frontera
- Two hours to Córdoba or Cadiz.
- About 2.5 hours to Granada or Gibraltar.
All in all, Ronda is the great place to stay for a night or two if your holiday plans include seeing the Alhambra, the Mezquita, Malaga’s Picasso Museum, the Caminito del Rey (El Chorro), or the annual Jerez Horse Fair.
Plaza de Toros (Bullring) in Ronda
Even if, like me, you don’t agree with bullfighting, it is undeniable that the Plaza de Toros (bullring) in Ronda occupies a very special place in modern Spanish culture and history as the home of the Rondeño style of bullfighting and also of the Real Maestranza De Caballería De Ronda. A guided tour of Ronda and the bullring is well worth the small expense. The bullring was built entirely of stone in the 18th century, during the golden years of Pedro Romero’s reign as a champion bullfighter.
Agatha Christie Series Filmed in Ronda
Featured in a Netflix Mystery Series: In late 2025, Ronda served as a filming location for Agatha Christie: Seven Dials, a new mystery series released on Netflix. The production used several of Ronda’s iconic historical sites for exterior scenes, including the Plaza de Toros, Puente Nuevo, and other nearby landmarks. This global exposure has helped boost interest in Ronda’s cultural heritage and brought additional attention to the bullring as a must‑see destination.
Would you like to visit a fighting bull farm in Ronda?
Reservatoro Ronda is a working breeding farm of fighting bulls and pure Andalusian horses, located just 5 km from Ronda. It was created by the now retired bullfighter Rafael Tejada. It is open to the public, giving visitors the opportunity to share in the lives of these animals throughout all their breeding stages and their fascinating selection process, as well as interact with them.
Ronda’s Arab Walls and City Gates
A secure city
Part of the reason Ronda is so important in the history of Andalucia directly relates to how secure the city was from attack. The city walls in combination with the gorge and rio Guadalevin made Ronda’s Arab Walls and City Gates impervious from attack until the age of the cannon.
Whilst wooden palisades existed to protect neolithic communities and their successors before the constructions of the Roman castle, the reality is that most of the stone walls around Ronda directly owe their construction to the Islamic era, a period that spanned close to 800 years from 712 until 1485.
Traditional Spanish Gazpacho Andaluz Recipe
The origins of gazpacho andaluz are mysterious, and like most things from our past, have never been truly documented. What writing does exist is filled with inaccuracies, but the general consensus is that the pre-Roman Andalusians (often identified as Ibericelts) were making something akin to gazpacho as early as Phoenician and Carthaginian times. To complicate matters, similar raw vegetable or bread-based cold soups were also made by pre-Roman peoples in the Italian peninsula.
However, it’s important to note that tomatoes—now a defining ingredient—were not introduced to Europe until after the Columbian exchange in the 16th century. Early versions of gazpacho would have been made with stale bread, garlic, olive oil, vinegar, water, and possibly local herbs or vegetables like cucumbers. It was a practical, nourishing dish for farmworkers—hydrating, energizing, and easy to prepare without heat in the southern Spanish sun.