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We've all heard of the famous caves at Altamira in Cantabria, the Caves of Drach on Mallorca and the Nerja Caves on the eastern Costa del Sol. But what about the caves in the northern Serrania de Ronda?

Pablo de Ronda fell in love with Ronda the first time he visited in August 2000. By 2005 he owned an apartment and a house in the Barrio San Francisco. He had also done up a house in town for his girlfriend of the time. In 2008, single again, he met the girl of his dreams and moved out to live permanently in the Ronda area.

Montejaque is tiny, with a population of less than 1000. Approximately 40 are foreigners. Another 40 or so are property-owners in the village but are non-residents. The range of nationalities represented is very wide.

This is an up-to-date appreciation of the bars and restaurants in the Barrio San Francisco in Ronda. Just outside the ancient city wall, this is an up-and-coming area with open-air spaces and fine dining.

There are a number of abandoned mills in the Serrania de Ronda, which over the years have been renovated and turned into hotels, restaurants and casas rurales. Here is a rundown.

What a find! We only went because our new Italian neighbour is the chef there, and we wanted to check him out! Wow!

Paul Whitelock has lived around these parts for going on 15 years, and these are the 15 things he loves about living in the Serrania de Ronda in Ronda itself, in the campo and in Montejaque.

A number of railway sheds have been converted into restaurants along the railway line down to Algeciras. There is also a great choice of other eating establishments on or at stations on this route.

Where can you get an early morning cup of coffee? Workers, caffeine addicts and insomniacs need an early hit. The 12 best in and around Ronda.

A stroll from Avenida de Knittlingen, along Avenida de Andalucía to Plaza de la Constitución, looking at points of interest on the way.

The exquisite ´serranito´ from Ronda is thirty years old. Inventor Benito González managed to make this tapa a culinary masterpiece, using pork fillet, serrano ham, green peppers and ripe tomatoes fresh from the garden.

Local resident Paul Whitelock writes about his experience of finding food for those people who don’t eat meat.