Ronda - Hotel Reina Victoria

Farther north from Ronda's Alameda de José Antonio, beyond the church of La Merced, is the Hotel Reina Victoria, where the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke stayed in 1912-13. The room he occupied contains mementos of the poet, and there is a statue of him (by N. Díaz Piquero, 1966) in the hotel gardens.