Harvesting the olives

Here at La Cazalla, we were very fortunate being able to gather our olives before the heavy rains started, for, if we should have left it for a week later, the rains fallen in the area would have ruined totally our harvest. We only have sixty olives, but they can give us around 1.000Kgs which are transformed in around 100lts of exceptionally good olive oil, to keep us going very comfortably the whole year round.

As we do not add any chemical to the soil, sometimes the trees are atacked by a bug that diminishes considerably what you can collect and this year and for that reason we only picked up 700 Kgs, but we prefer it this way, for it is important for us to keep the soil biologically healthy.

You probably are asking yourselves what are those incredibly red bushes that are shown in the photographs, well, they are zumaque, Rhus coriaria, used in this area for tanning leather during Arab times around the X century.Its harvest got to be a profitable activity until in modern times the tanning industry substituted the zumaque for Chrome.

The bushes shown in these photographs are small remains of that ancient industry.

15% Discount for Early Reservations at Hotel La Cazalla de Ronda

Hotel La Cazalla

Paraje Tajo del Abanico

29400 Ronda - Phone: (34) 952 11 41 75

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“One of the Best Hotels that we have ever stayed”Oct 11, 2009 - Poojasandeep

“Great place to stay and unbelievable value”Jul 21, 2009 - SarahRupert

Spring is round the corner and you are probably starting to think about escapades to Andalucía where warm weather comes sooner and stays longer.

This year, we are offering you a 15% discount, for room reservations made from the 20th of January, until the 20th of February of 2010. The offer ends at midnight of the20th of February.

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Dinner by Candle Light at Hotel La Cazalla de Ronda

Again, La Cazalla de Ronda Hotel starts serving Dinners

Dinner at La Cazalla is always a main event. In Spring, Summer and Autumn it is served in the beautiful terraces under the stars, by candle light and song of nightingales and fountains, just as it might have been two thousand years ago, when the property was owned first by Romans and later by Arabs.

It requires previous reservation, latest during breakfast, or even better, the day before. And if the guest is planning to have dinner at the hotel on the date of arrival, must let us know with time, through email or phone call.

Time serving: 9:00 PM in June, July, August and September

8:00 PM during rest of the year

Menu consist of a three course meal

Price menu: €40 per person (no wine or 7% tax included

We ask our guests to let us know if they have any known allergies or dislikes and we will plan dinner according to these requirements. Ingredients are always first quality and chosen by their universal acceptance, using whenever we can, vegetables and fruits from our own garden, and always our own olive oil, and although we have not applied for the oficial ecological seal, we never have put any chemicals in our vegetables, fruits, or herbs.

We start serving dinners again

Dear friends:

At this time, if it wasn't because in our privileged world, we also have to keep on living, with all the consecuences that life implies, it would seem obscene to talk about good cooking, exquisite presentation and ideal atmosphere which is what we offer at La Cazalla de Ronda

The dimensions of the tragedy in Haiti has stared at us,lucky human beings of the first world, in an accusing sort of way, forcing us to look inside ourselves and see how fatuous and superfluous most of our cares are, how many prerogatives we posssess by the mere geographical accident of our birth, and how much of our suffering is due to the fact that we want more and better of whatever, it does not matter what, while so many others extended through three continents would be happy with a small part of what we throw away.
And this is so everyday of their miserable lives, without any disaster. It is when disaster comes that we are forced to look at them, because it is news all over the world, and news is a very coveted good, for it is buying and selling what makes our society even richer.

All of us will do whatever we can to help, I'm sure, but will we and our politicians remember when the news is not news anylonger?

Holiday Rental of La Cazalla de Ronda main house

Spend New Year's at La Cazalla de Ronda
with family or friends.

Starting the week of the 28th of December we will give our guests the opportunity of enjoying La Cazalla's house all to themselves.

As you alredy know the main house has five large bedrooms, all with ensuite facilities (showers, no bathtubs) and queen size beds (1.80x2.00mts). The kitchen is well equipped as for a small hotel should be, and therefore perfect for a large family.

For price and conditions, please get in touch with us:

info@lacazalladeronda.com - (34) 952 11 41 75

WINTER COURSES AT HOTEL LA CAZALLA, RONDA

Papier mache rod puppets

By the end of the course, each participant will have created a simple but beautiful and unique papier mache rod puppet using materials that are normally discarded in everyday life: and old boot, a nylon stocking, an ugly necklace, an out of fashion blouse, a broken belt, converting them into beautiful complements for your puppet.

We will go over the basics of how to put up a puppet show for a holiday party with participation of friends and family and will have the opportunity to see how a real puppet theater has been made and lighted as well as the scenarios.

Dates:

The course will start the 3rd of December and will end December 7th

The five dayly sessions will start at 9:00AM and will end at 1:00 PM

Breakfast will be served at the Hotel at 8:00AM

As the purpose of the course is not only to learn how to make puppets, but to combine this activity with slow tourism, if work planned for a particular session was finished before 1:00PM, the class will decide if to end it for that day, or continue advancing work planned for next day.

Prices

Price of Puppet making course: €200 per person

All materials are included, but if you wish to bring a special material, or jewelry it will be welcome.

Price per double bedroom:

(Prices include breakfast, dinner and wine.)

For one person: € 115

For two: € 145

Seven per cent taxes are not included.

Puppet Winter Courses for beginners at Hotel La Cazalla, Ronda

Why Puppets?
It was years ago, during a terribly stressing period of my life while working for a large fashion company in Madrid, that I retook a forgotten hobby of mine which in the past had given me so many satisfactions: puppet making .

Simple papier mache rod puppets that friends and family coveted as gifts and were the perfect excuse for creating charming plays in festive occasions, allowing me to disconnect from dayly work pressure, while I dreamt of having the courage of leaving everything behind, and return to Andalucía, where I had been so happy.

But one day I stopped dreaming about it and took a decision: I would definetely return to Andalucía, but not to that coast village where I had lived for so many years, before small villages stopped being that: small villages by the sea and were transformed into amorphous masses of cemented cells. No, it would have to be in the interior of that green and secret Andalucía so beautiful and yet so unknown, even to natives, where my teenage son and I would start a completely new life.