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The roquedales that surround his territory are the local proprietors and they contribute to the scenery grandeur and beauty. to emphasize some areas of special landscape interest, these they would be: the Gully of the Horn, in the Saw of the Snow; the Tagus of Round and the Cauldron, contemplated from the chapel of the Virgin of Head; the Gullet of the Creek of the Cupil, where highway of Seville crosses it ; the alcornocal of Low Vogues and the ravine of the Vale of the Sijuela.
The origins of the city of Round are Celtic, although there are found prehistoric remains in his environment, in the Cave of Sink and in other archaeological deposits. Later the Phoenicians and Greeks were those who settled in the near Acinipo. Round as such was founded by the Romans, with the name of Arunda, which was characterized for being a mercantile city, due to his position strategic in the Mountainous range.
During the Islamic period, Round turns the capital of province Andalusí de Takurunna, and later it happens to be a kingdom of Factions independent. It is in this period when the biggest believes part of the monumental patrimony with which the historical helmet is provided of Round and the suburbs. In the epochs of the wars before to conquest christens, It is about form part of the Kingdom Nazarí of Granada and his special orographical characteristics make her turn in an important frontier enclave.
After the Christian conquest in 1485, the city of Round goes away transforming to stop being an Islamic city. In 1572 training founds the Real Arsenal of Knighthood of Round with ends of for the defense and the wars of the kingdom. In the century XVII constructs himself the bridge on the Tagus to make it possible enlargement of the city towards the north. The first built bridge, of only one arch, collapses to a little time. The current one, acquaintance like New Bridge was constructed by Martín de Aldehuela and principal Round symbol is .
From this epoch the romantic bandits myths are created and toreadors. The Castle of Laurel, citadel of Round, is knocked down for the French in his retreat. During the XIXth and XXth centuries her economic Round activity keeps on being principally rural, being the meeting point for the inhabitants of the Towns of the Mountainous range and having moments of explendor at the beginning of the century XX with the arrival of the railroad. In 1918 it is chosen in Round Flag and the Anthem of Andalusia. In this epoch it is begun to to consolidate the Box Savings of Round that has impelled it hard economy of the city up to his disappearance in 1990 on having fused with other banking institutions.
At present Round devotes itself principally to the cultural tourism and rurally. There are some food and agriculture industries and of furniture, and one big quantity of small commerce and restaurants thought for to satisfy the demand of the tourists that there come every day in excursions proceeding from the coast of the Sun. Actaulmente there is turned into one of the most visited cities of Andalusia thank you to his big monumental patrimony and to his in Goya's style continuous acquaintance of It patrols.
Round belongs to this select number of cities only comparable to yes the same, without possibility of reply or resemblance with others, something that the traveler will be able to verify as soon as it penetrates into the helmet historically and sees how before his eyes an architecture and one open scenery to themselves dazzling, impregnated, also, of a dense load of history and legend that desdibuja the limit between the reality and her fantasy but that affirms flatly the Round singularity.
The visit to Round is realized usually from the square of Spain, in the quarter of the Flea market, where the National State-run hotel is placed of Tourism, ancient Town hall. From here one crosses the City, it is to say, to the most ancient quarter, for the New Bridge, undoubtedly her construction more known about Round, which arose from the need of to communicate straight the most ancient area of the city with which already in the XVIIIth century it had turned into the new Round.
Essential visits:
New bridge, Convent of San Francisco, House of Saint John Bosco, Church of the Virgin of the Peace, House of the Giant, Palace of Mondragón, Square Duchess Parcent, Major Church of Santa Maria of Embodiment, Small house of the Tower, Town hall, Church of Charity, Convent of Santa Elizabeth of the Angels, Church of Holy Spirit, Door of Almocábar, Door of Carlos V, Convent of the Franciscan Mothers, Convent of San Francisco, Museum of the Bandit, Museum of the Hunting, Thematic museum Lara, Museum Joaquín Peinado, Minaret of San Sebastián, Palace of the Marquess of Salvatierra, House of King Moro, Arch of Felipe V, Armchair of King Moro, Old Bridge, Source of eight pipes, Church of the Father Jesus, Convent of God's Mother, Moderate you of the Virgin of the Pains, Church of Santa Cecilia, Church of the Help, Bullring, Gardens of Blas Infante, Church of the Favor, Hotel Reina Victoria, Mozarabic Monastery of the Virgin of the Head, Arab Baths, Roman deposit of Acinipo
Her Bullring of Round, property of the Real Arsenal of Knighthood of Round, for his history and his architecture, for his character and his beauty is admitted like one of the most ancient and one of more monumental that they exist. It is not by chance. Round is considered to be one of the cradles of the modern tauromachy arisen in the XVIIIth century, in a city where tradition of the knighthood was preserving it very alive after a corporation existed dedicated to that was not losing the equestrian discipline.
The needs of defense of the territory did that Felipe II was founding in 1572 the Real Arsenal of Knighthood of Round, so that the necessary handling of the horses was supported. For it, this one body dedicated a space of the city for the equestrian exercises, between which, as it is traditional in Spain from the Middle Age, included the workmanship games with bulls. The bravery of this one , on having attacked horses and riders, animal was serving of incomparable training to the gentlemen, and spectacle was turning into an exciting one for the whole population.
When in the XVIIIth century the toreadors on foot take the relief of gentlemen in the games with the bull, the family arises in Round of the Rosemary, which during three generations assembles the toreadors more singular of the epoch. Between them Pedro Romero stood out especially (1754-1839), represents summit and the most representative of the history of the tauromachy. It moved back after more than 5.600 bulls ran, without receiving the most minimal scrape. His personality achieved that his office was reaching respect and social dignity, on having assembled value, workmanship and esthetic sense. Pedro and his brother José Romero were painted the portrait by Goya.
The heyday of the bullfighting led to the Real Arsenal of Knighthood of Round to erecting his famous square, work that assumes to Martín of Hamlet, the same architect of the grand New Bridge on Tagus of Round, which wakes up the general admiration for spectacular nature of his emplacement. The construction of the square lasted six years, and it was inaugurated in 1785 with a bullfight in the one that they operated Pedro Romero y Pepe-Hillo. Conceived in stone sandy with a monumental scheme, the nobility of his touch architectural, with his double gallery of arcades and the absence of stretched to the overdraft, has more cloister spirit that of enclosure for spectacles, and palace of Carlos V resembles the circular courtyard of the famous person in the Alhambra of Granada.
His hem 66 meters in diameter is surrounded by an alley formed by two stones rings. The layings have five lines of bleachers, of two apartments, with 136 columns forming 68 arches of columns toscanas, except that of the Real Theater box. Covered with roof to two waters of Arab tile, the elegance of his interior does not have equally in any other bullring.
In the XXth century, the toreadors' second dynasty rondeños, them Ordóñez, constitutes another Round contribution to the history of Tauromachy. His two fundamental figures were Cayetano Ordóñez (1904-1961) and his son Antonio Ordóñez (1932-1998), who woke up, for his way of conceiving the bullfighting, the personalities interest like the film maker Orson Welles and of the North American writer Ernest Hemingway, to which he dedicated works as Holiday and Death in the evening. There were the Ordóñez those who inaugurated in 1954 the in Goya's style bullfight of It patrols, owing to the celebration of II Centenary of the birth of Pedro Romero. Since then there have turned into one of showier appointments of the bullfighting calendar, in addition to constituting one social event.
One treats times of Francisco de Goya as a celebration with the exorno, clothing and the device of . The bullfight takes place at the beginning of in September, coinciding with the most popular of three fairs that celebrates Round, along with an exhibition of carriages and harnessings and one rejoneo bullfight.
The Museum of the Real Arsenal of Knighthood of Round is placed under the shade layings, and his contents divide in three big paragraphs: The Real Arsenal of Knighthood of Round, Origins and evolution of the Tauromachy, and Round in the History of Tauromachy.
It is provided with a collection of etchings, engravings, lithographies and you stamp, with an edition of the "Tauromachy" of Francisco de Goya, and the foreigners' tauromachy as Lake Price, Victor Adam and Edward Orme; books, accomplishments and engravings relative to equestrian discipline, oils of the XVIIth, XVIII and XIX, cartelería historical and contemporary, suits, objects and papers related between themselves with graphic complements to offer one vision of set that allows to bring over to the universe of tauromachy of didactic and clear form
Nuclei of Round: Rosalejo, Serrato, Montecorto, The Parchite, Her Cimada, The Pines, Port of the Elder |
