Hotel Soho Boutique Palacio San Gabriel

Top choice in Ronda


Despite new chain-hotel management, this heavyweight historic edifice retains its age-old charm, filled with antiques and faded photographs that offer an insight into Ronda’s history – bullfighting, celebrities and all. Ferns hang down the huge mahogany staircase, and there's a billiard room, a cosy living room stacked with books, and a DVD-screening room with 10 velvet-covered seats rescued from Ronda’s theatre.

The rooms are filled with wonderful details (the phones might have come from Downton Abbey) and some of the bathrooms are downright palatial. Check the website for packages that include cava (sparkling wine) in the room, vineyard tours and hammam visits.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Ronda attractions

1. Museo Joaquín Peinado

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Native Ronda artist Joaquín Peinado was an amigo and contemporary of Picasso's, a fact reflected in his work, with its strong abstract lines, flirtations…

2. Museo Lara

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This crazy, cluttered museum is the private collection of Juan Antonio Lara Jurado, who has been a collector since the age of 10. Now in his 80s, he still…

3. Iglesia de Santa María La Mayor

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The city’s original mosque metamorphosed into this elegant church. Just inside the entrance is an arch covered with Arabic inscriptions that was part of…

4. Museo de Ronda

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This somewhat faded city museum displays artefacts and information spanning several millennia of Andalucian history. Of even more interest to some will be…

5. Museo del Bandolero

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This small museum is dedicated to the banditry for which central Andalucía was once renowned. Old prints reflect that when the youthful bandoleros …

6. Casa del Rey Moro

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Several landscaped terraces give access to La Mina, an Islamic stairway of nearly two hundred steps cut into the rock all the way down to the river at the…

7. Puente Nuevo

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Straddling the dramatic gorge of the Río Guadalevín (Deep River) is Ronda's most recognisable sight, the towering Puente Nuevo, so named not because it's…

8. Baños Árabes

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Backing onto Ronda’s river, these 13th-century Arab baths are among the best-preserved in all of Andalucía, with horseshoe arches, columns and clearly…