{"id":1237,"date":"2016-04-08T21:41:26","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T21:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/?p=1237"},"modified":"2016-04-18T16:00:38","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T16:00:38","slug":"eurotrip-5-2016-day-5-ronda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/?p=1237","title":{"rendered":"Eurotrip 5, 2016 \u2013 Day 5, Ronda&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Day 5 began with breakfast at the Hotel &#8211; the Hotel Puerto de la Sierra &#8211; which as it&#8217;s name implies, is situated at the head of the via verde we had cycled 1 day earlier.<\/p>\n<p>After breakfast was a medium drive to the village of Ronda and a whistle-stop tour of this fascinating ancient village with its spectacular bridge(s).<\/p>\n<p>Ronda is a mountaintop city in Spain\u2019s Malaga province that\u2019s set dramatically above a deep gorge. This gorge (El Tajo) separates the city\u2019s circa-15th-century new town from its old town, dating to Moorish rule.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_842\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-842\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-842\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150521_142141-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Jo admires the classic view of Puento Neuvo\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150521_142141-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150521_142141-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150521_142141-767x431.jpg 767w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-842\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jo admires the classic view of Puento Neuvo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Puente Nuevo, a stone bridge spanning the gorge, offers sweeping views. New town\u2019s Plaza de Toros, a legendary 18th-century bullring, is one of the city\u2019s most recognisable landmarks.<\/p>\n<p>The tour was brief as we needed to be back at the campsite early evening as there was a possibility of places on a coach tour the next day to Gibraltor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 5 began with breakfast at the Hotel &#8211; the Hotel Puerto de la Sierra &#8211; which as it&#8217;s name implies, is situated at the head of the via verde we had cycled 1 day earlier. After breakfast was a medium drive to the village of Ronda and a whistle-stop tour of this fascinating ancient &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/?p=1237\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Eurotrip 5, 2016 \u2013 Day 5, Ronda&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2016-europe-spain","category-2016-europe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1237"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1269,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions\/1269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}