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About Ronda Today

Ronda Today is the largest English language portal in the Serranía de Ronda covering tourism, art and culture, information of specific interest to foreign residents (the Ronda Expat Guide), and news from the Serranía. The website is huge work in progress, and is updated almost every day.

We take our responsibility to produce the most accurate information seriously. We employ writers with graduate level English writing skills, and sales people who are fluent or native Spanish speakers. Respect for our readers and advertisers is a high priority.

We’ve worked hard to build up Ronda Today into the site it is today, but we have ambitious goals, including the creation of an online magazine for Ronda and the Serranía, as well as use of email to alert our readers of the latest happenings and goings on. In addition, we are also planning several sister sites, Olvera Today, Antequera Today, and Campillos Today.

If you have photographs of the Serranía, Ronda, or the Pueblos Blancos that you’d like to share with our readers, we’d be delighted to receive them. On a related note, if you’d like to share your personal anecdotes, reviews of hotels or restaurants, favourite local recipes, or anything at all you think we should be covering, please email us. Email Ronda Today using admin@rondatoday.com and we’ll reply within a day or two at the latest.

Who We Are

Andy, Editor of Ronda Today

Ronda Today is owned by Andy Cameron, also known by the pseudonym Andy de Ronda, who is both editor and lead writer on Ronda Today. Andy is a keen walker and student of history, and it was his passion for Ronda that resulted in the first incarnation of Ronda Today, a website that started as a tourism website and has now become the Serranía de Ronda’s only English language news source updated as often as the news.

Several contributors should be mentioned by name as well, including David Nuyen, Claire Conway, Bearnard O’Riain along with others who prefer to remain anonymous for privacy reasons. The team at Ronda Today is proud of our achievements in two years, and as 2010 unfolds we offer our commitment to cover the news as it happens. If you have any suggestions for stories you’d like to see us investigate please feel free to email Andy on admin@rondatoday.com.

Advertise on Ronda Today

RondaToday.com is a website written by people who live and work in Ronda and the Serranía, and is aimed at tourists planning a visit to Ronda, the Peublos Blancos, and the Natural Parks surrounding the district. We provide detailed information about the history and culture of the area, and plan to offer a series of ideas for tourists who want to know what they can do while they travel through the Serranía de Ronda.

Foreign residents of Ronda and the district are also our target audience, and we take pride in giving them information about local services and events. With an unofficial population of 10,000 foreign residents in the vicinity of Ronda, we aim to become the main source of news, events, and activities for foreign residents.

Ronda Today is an ideal website for local business people to advertise their services to the English speaking community of Ronda, and also to tourists who don’t speak Spanish. We are actively promoting Ronda Today which is now the largest English language website for Ronda and the surrounding Serranía.

According to all sources, including the British Foreign Office, there are over 1 million people from the United Kingdom living in Spain. Unofficial estimates place around 10,000 people within a 40 km radius of Ronda. In addition, hundreds of thousands of people visit Ronda each year from the US, Canada, the UK, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Scandinavia etc. Many visitors don’t speak Spanish, but do speak English as a second language. Ronda Today is one of their main sources of information.

To advertise on this website, contact Andy on +34 695 722 075, or use our contact form to email us.

Privacy Policy for Ronda Today

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At Ronda Today, we recognize that privacy of your personal information is important. Below, we describe what types of personal information we receive and collect when you use and visit Ronda Today, and how we safeguard your information. We never sell your personal information to third parties.

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Ronda

Ronda is one of Spain's most visited cities for good reason, our little city is very compact, in fact from arriving in Ronda, to seeing the Real Maestranza bullring, the Puente Nuevo, the many beautiful churches, our museums, or the wonderful coffee shops and tapas bars, we have it all within a short 30 minute walk.

Of course, most visitors need at least 2 or 3 days to see everything because a lot can be packed into your time in Ronda. Stay in one of Ronda’s many excellent hotels, with a choice of restaurant covering tapas in a local bar, menu del dia, or a la carte menu.

A walking tour of Ronda is a pleasant and enjoyable way to spend a lazy few hours, almost everything you could want to see in Ronda is no more than 200-300 metres from the new bridge.

Ronda Today is the Serranía de Ronda's only daily English language news source, our we take pride in providing Ronda News as it happens.

Stay in Ronda

As one of the most visited cities in Spain, Ronda has a fantastic selection of hotels, hostels, guesthouses, and self-catered accommodation guaranteed to suit all tastes.

Whether it's just one night, or several weeks that you need we can help you find somewhere to rest your weary bones while you're in the city of dreams - La Ciudad Soñada.

Join great names like Orson Welles, Earnest Hemingway, Rainer Rilke, James Joyce, Jorge Luis Borges, Madonna, or Jamie Oliver who have enjoyed their time in Ronda.

Visitors who plan to make Ronda their new home should check out our property section, where we talk about some of the gotchas that can occur. Forewarned is forearmed.

Why Visit Ronda

A small city perched on a seemingly precarious platform of rock, Ronda is in fact an impregnable fortress only defeated in battle through trickery, and during the reconquest with modern (for the era) rock blasting cannon.

The mountains and valleys of the Serranía de Ronda are home to a tough breed of people, yet in Ronda these people are refined, some are gentry, some gypsies, others are just common folk, but all proudly call themselves Rondeños.

These days the population of Ronda is a little over 35,000 souls; big enough to offer all the essential services, but not big enough to suffer traffic problems or big city woes.

Rondeños have played a pivotal role in shaping Andalucía and modern Spain, and the city has hosted some of the great names of politics, the arts, education, and played her role in military events.

An hour from the Costa del Sol, Ronda is too far away to be heavily influenced by events on the coast, yet still close enough to benefit from the economic strength that tourism brings to Southern Spain. At a height of 723m, Ronda has a cooler year round temperature than the coast, making life in Ronda altogether more agreeable than other Andalucían cities.

Serranía de Ronda

Ronda is the biggest city in northern Malaga province, and the closest city to many of the smaller villages in Cadiz province, making Ronda an ideal base for exploring the Serrania.

Within a few kilometres of Ronda are some of the most visited Pueblos Blancos, the famous white villages of Andalucia, Setenil de las Bodegas, Grazalema, Gaucín, Juzcar, Benalauria, Montejaque, Teba, Cortes de la Frontera, Igualeja, the list goes on...

As well, Ronda is close to three natural parques, the Grazalema park, Alcornocales park, and the Sierra de las Nieves park. The Serranía is also home to pre-historic cave paintings at Benaojan, Neolithic dolmens at Montecorto, and of course, the Roman city of Acinipo.

The countryside of the Serranía is described as unique, in fact universally important. Many endemic species make their home here, including the pre ice age Pinsapa pine tree, and numerous orchids only found on our mountains.