- 配几张图。西班牙南部山城 Ronda 的斗牛场。据说这是最早的斗牛场之一。Ronda 是海明威，Orson Welles （好象还有麦当娜）的最爱。
One of the prettiest and historic towns in Andalucia, Ronda is a world apart from the nearby Costa del Sol. Straddling the 100 m savagely deep and steep El Tajo gorge, Ronda was a pivotal commercial center in Roman times. Fortunes dwindled under Moorish rule after Al Mutadid ibn Abbad drowned the ruling lord in his bath and annexed the city for Sevilla. More recently, Ronda--the birthplace of modern bullfighting--has attracted such forlorn artists as Rainer Maria Rilke, who wrote his Spanish Elegies here, and Orson Welles, whose ashes are buried on a bull farm outside of town.
Ronda's Plaza de Toros,the home of bullfighting and a mecca for aficionados, was inaugurated in 1785. It is regarded as the world's most beautiful bullring, and among the oldest in Spain. Ernest Hemingway suggested Ronda to be the best place "to spend your honeymoon or to see a bullfight for the first time". Rilke called Ronda "the dreamt city", gathering all the things he wished for. And Orson Welles even loved this town so much that he chose it to be his final destination. His ashes were finally scattered in Ronda on the ranch of his friend, the famous bullfighter Antonio Ordoñez.
去年十一月份去的，在那里认识新郎先生的。眨眼间一年就过去了。这里还有一些西班牙的照片和笔记（未完成）：
http://jorielle.zoto.com/galleries/spain2004 http://jorielle-photos.blogspot.com/2004_11_01_jorielle-photos_archive.html
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