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Michelle Obama visits Ronda, a favorite Spanish city of Orson Welles, Ernest Hemingway

RONDA, Spain (AP) — U.S. first lady Michelle Obama and daughter Sasha on Saturday visited the picturesque southern city of Ronda, once a favorite haunt of actor-director Orson Welles and author Ernest Hemingway .Security was tight as Mrs. Obama and 9-year-old Sasha toured Santa Maria, a classic Andalusian-style church dedicated to the Virgin Mary.The group — which included an unknown number of the first lady's friends — had driven into the hilltop city in a motorcade and later stopped for lunch at Del Escudero restaurant, set in a baronial style 19th century villa with typical whitewashed walls and red roof tiles located next to the bullring.Welles and Hemingway both wrote about Ronda's beauty and colorful bullfighting traditions after living there part-time.Ronda's population of around 37,000 swells each summer as tourists flock to see its sights, including the oldest-known bullring in Spain.Hemingway's novel "For Whom the Bell Tolls" depicts the brutality of Spain's 1936-39 civil war...

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