Rainer Maria Rilke, the famous German poet, stayed in Ronda for a few months between 1912 and 1913 at the Hotel Catalonia Reina Victoria. Looking out from his room (nr 208) over the deep ravine which divides the city in two, Rilke was hypnotised by the landscape. “I have searched everywhere for the city of my dreams, and I have finally found it in Ronda”, he wrote.
