Ronda Corner
by Weston Westmoreland
Title
Ronda Corner
Artist
Weston Westmoreland
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
Corner of the Church of Santa Maria la Mayor, Ronda, Spain.
Detail of the little attached building in the corner of the church. This church was built in 1486 on the remains of the mosque of the city after the reconquest. Gothic at first, the partial reconstruction after an earthquake in 1585 was made in the Renaissance style.
Ronda is a city in the Spanish province of Málaga and one of the most beautiful cities in Andalusia. The old city was built atop a vertical promontory that has been inhabited since before the Iron Age. Iberians, Romans, Visigoths, Muslims and Christians have occupied the place and extended the city westwards across the gorge by means of bridges, the latest of which spans the gorge at a height of 360 feet.
American artists Ernest Hemingway and Orson Welles spent many summers in Ronda. Both wrote about Ronda's beauty and famous bullfighting traditions. Their accounts contributed to Ronda's popularity.
More images from Ronda, the Alhambra and other Al-Andalusian images one copy-paste away in my Gallery at http://westonwestmoreland.com/collections/alhambra+and+alandalus
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January 30th, 2020
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