Sometimes, you know in an instant that you are going to really like a place. That’s how my wife and I feel as we gaze over the Andalusian plains up toward a towering plateau and, for the first time, feast our eyes upon the small Spanish town of Ronda. We don’t remember ever hearing of Ronda before the day we noticed that our tour would stop here between visits to the Costa del Sol and Seville. None of the others we ask in our tour group are familiar with it either. But from now on, we shall rave about this little gem (only 35,000 inhabitants) and rank it among our favorite sights in Spain. Ronda seems to have the same effect on just about everyone else. A Dazzling Setting It’s a dazzling setting. Perched at an isolated point in the sierra upon a lofty shelf 2,460 feet above sea level—with …