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ANTEQUERA seemed old even to the Romans, who named it Anticaria, no doubt because of the prehistoric monuments they found. Of these, three major examples have survived to this day. The Menga cave, considered "the most impressive tomb of the whole of prehistory", is a gallery held up by giant pillars measuring 25 metres long and 6 metres wide; one of their stones weighs 320 tons. Less spectacular, though also featuring large stones, is the Viera cave. The Romeral cave represents the conquest of vaulted architecture with less effort, due to the small amount of bonding employed in the walls; the dome system is achieved "by drawing the horizontal courses nearer together". The three monuments can be dated to 2500 BC.

Before the town there stretches a wide and fertile plain. The town centre is a monument in itself, with its walls and an abundance of palaces and churches from all periods, though the most interesting features are found in the Baroque elements, for their decorative development.
Romano is an excellent ephebe conserved by the town council, and installed in the eighteenth-century Palaeio de Najera. Perched on a hill, the collegiate church known as the Real Colegiata de Santa Maria, a Renaissance construction with Mudejar touches, lends the urban layout a landscaped effect. The Areo de 105 Gigantes was built in honour of Philip II.

A particular interesting feature of Antequera are a series of chapels, of popular origin, open with large arches and located on the corners of the streets that led to the fields; the most important of these are the Cruz Blanea and Portiehuleo chapels.

RONDA is splendidly located in the middle of a craggy hill range, not far from the sea. This earthy beauty is increased by the tajo, a gorge 180 metres deep separating two masses of limestone crossed by the Puente Nuevo, an engineering marvel from the end of the eighteenth century. All this has been declared a site of historical-artistic value.

Of Ronda's surviving Arab elements, the most spectacular is the Torre de San Sebastian, a Nasrid minaret from the fourteenth century and relatively well conserved, and the Mondrag6n courtyard, Renaissance in its appearance but which has also succeeded in maintaining mosaics and Nasrid parts of the buildings from the fourteenth century. The oldest remains are the thirteenth-century Arab baths, though also from this century are part of the mihrab and the minaret that have been kept in the church known as Santa Marra la Mayor.

The Casa del Rey Moro or Moorish King's House is, in fact, a Christian building, though it was built on the site of an Arab construction that contains the Mina de Ronda, a military building-from the Nasrid era. The Palacio de Los Marqueses de Salvatierra is a Renaissance palace, featuring Inca motifs in its facade and a series of wrought iron balconies, one of the finest works in all Ronda, a town that specialises in this trade.
The Bullring, the Plaza de Toros, was built in 1785 by the Real Maestranza de Caballerfa. The 50-metre diameter of the ring, the stone barriers and the sheer history of the ring make it a reverential place for the bullfighting world.

CASARES, which dates to before Roman times, is located on the edge of the Serranfa de Ronda. The parish church tower affords a fine view of the nearby hills, full of pine and Spanish fir trees, the Mediterranean and the Campo de Gibraltar. Casares has narrow streets leading up an down the steep slopes, with houses that seem to hang in the air, and it is a model of a village fully integrated into the surrounding landscape. The remains of the Arab castle include the Vera Cruz Hermitage, declared a site of historicalartistic value.

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