This weekend we went on an excursion offered through ISA to
the cities of Ronda and Málaga. Our first
stop was Ronda. It was about a 3 hour
bus ride from Granada. We didn’t have a lot of time in Ronda, just a 2 hour
walking tour and about an hour and a half for lunch, but the walking tour gave
us a pretty good idea of what the city is like. Ronda is a smaller city
surrounded by mountains and vineyards.
Like every city in Andalucía, it was at one point under Arab rule and
got taken over by Isabel and Fernando so there is a huge Muslim influence and
most of the important buildings like the Cathedral, were originally constructed
by the Muslims. We ended the tour by going
to see the old Muslim baths. We watched
a video about the whole process of bathing and it was really interesting
because they literally spent hours bathing.
After lunch we got back on the bus for an hour or so and
went to Málaga. Málaga was much more my style because
it’s a coastal city that actually reminds me a lot of Charleston, SC. Once we
got there we just had free time the whole night so my friends and I went to the
beach for a while and went to a few bars for tapas. The next morning we took a tour
of the city. My favorite part of the
whole weekend was going to the Pablo Picasso museum. Picasso was born in Málaga and the have a pretty
good museum of nothing but Picasso painting, sculptures and drawings.
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