Cortes de la Frontera

Geographic location: 40 miles from Ronda and 20 Benaojan, to 633 meters in the middle of Ronda.

Surface area: 173.60 square kilometers

Number of residents: 3767

What: Courtier

Monuments: Town Hall, Our Lady of the Rosary Parish, Casa de los

Valdenebro, Stone House and Parish House.

Numbers of interest:

City Hall 952 15 40 00

Ambulatory 952 15 42 34

Guardia Civil 952 15 40 25

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The municipality of Cortes de la Frontera is situated in the river valley Guadiaro, in the Serrania de Ronda, in the far western province of Malaga. Most of its land is covered by huge masses of cork that run from the river to get Guadiaro within the province of Cadiz providing a beautiful landscape and a special microclimate that is characterized by high humidity and cold air, especially in winter, dry and warm in summer with a pleasant coolness in the evening. Within this vast grove corners are dreamy as the site of the Sauceda, where the City Council has provided the facility to spend the night, or the pit of Buitreras, Guadiaro in the river, to which we can access in three ways, none of them easy railroad tunnels, by the river and the steep slopes, this unusual place where we can recreate its silence broken only by crows and the flutter of pigeons in the pit where we watch over 100 m deep, is located near the township of El Colmenar near the hydroelectric station of the Buitreras.

This town has some 4,500 courtiers spread over three towns, Cortes de la Frontera, as the main center; The Colmenar and the Cañada del Real Tesoro station or the courts.

Apart from its beauty, the natural environment of Cortes is of high ecological interest for what has been declared a zone of environmental protection while safeguarding the natural parks of Alcornocales and the Sierra de Grazalema, which was also put in the province of Cadiz .

The first settlers of this county were the Phoenicians in the XI and XII centuries before Christ, later to be occupied by the Greeks attracted by the trade initiated by the Phoenicians. But the rise of Cortes came with the Romans, who were major urban centers such as the Saepona and in the area known as El Viejo Cortes. In this era was called Cortex that means defense, armor.

Loa came after Arab and Cortes de la Frontera step forth to belong to the realms of Seville, Granada and Ronda. He was finally reconquered by the Christians in 1485 at the hands of Don Rodrigo Ponce de Leon.

The current location of this county dates back to the seventeenth century due to the momentum of the exploitation of cork resulting in the appearance of the people who do not follow the pattern of other towns in the area of Arab origin.

Natural

The municipality of Cortes is one of the largest in the area, covering 17,000 hectares of land, hosting the natural parks of Alcornocales and Sierra Grazalema. Within the great forest of oaks found corners of dreams as the site of the Sauceda, a former settlement of bandits in the heart of cork, or the pit of Buitreras, Guadiaro in the river, to which we can access in three ways, none of them Easy railroad tunnels, by the river and the steep slopes, this unusual place where we can recreate its silence broken only by crows and the flutter of pigeons where we contemplate the pit of more than 100 m deep, is located near the township of El Colmenar near the hydroelectric station of the Buitreras. Missed are also Guadiaro Valley, the Sierra de los Pinos, the "canutos" Laueisilva the forest, with plants belonging to the tertiary, the Pool of the Queen and the Rock of Vulture.

Town Hall

It is an important building constructed in stone with beautiful neoclassical facade of court. Dates back to 1784 commissioned in the era of enlightenment by Carlos III funded with public money for pure civil architecture. In contemplating the facade with its two-story gallery consisting of five arches of half a point supported by stone pillars. At the core of the facade provides a triangular pediment centered on the clock and the actual coat.

Plaza de Toros.

The construction of the bullring dates from 1894 but was renovated in 1921, consolidating itself as one of the most important places of the Highlands, after the Round. The creation of this square in a town so small wine given by the major livestock in the locality, and since then held bullfighting festivals.

Casa de Piedra

As its name suggests is a house built in the interior of a large stone, its origin seems to lie between the ages VI and VII of the time Paleochristian. Highlights the work done by anonymous artists, so manual and craft, to enable the interior of this rock.

The Tower of Paso.

The tower is a tower Paso watchtower built during the Arab occupation in the thirteenth century whose purpose was to monitor the road that linked Gaucin, on the Puerto del Espino, with Jubrique.

Old cuts.

Located about four miles from Cortes was an important Roman settlement of the Arab and later still remains.

Cortes de la Frontera has a wide variety of traditional homemade recipes including: the courtesan beef, tortillas cod, the sighs, the stew, the rehash or tostones, made from bread rehash, tomatoes, garlic, peppers and onions . In the coldest months no shortage of popular crumbs and season the deer hunting is prepared in a sauce. They are also delicious lamb of the Sierra Guadiar and the rabbit as well as recipes based on the wheat freshly picked asparagus. In the summer months the Andalusian gazpacho soup and cold. Within the sweets are famous merengue, Flambé desserts and Napoleon.

Starting the calendar of holidays after Christmas can attend the Carnival of considerable importance, where comparsas operating in the region and Cadiz.

The last week of May is celebrated the festival organized by the Barriada of Colmenar, followed a few days later of the Pilgrimage of Cortes, and the first week of July, the third pilgrimage of the year, this time led by Spahr.

Cortes de la Frontera celebrates its biggest festival for the month of August in honor of its patron San Roque and San Sebastian. During the holidays can attend the popular calves and heifers loose on the streets and various performances and activities that develop both older and for children.

4,500 courtiers spread over three towns, Cortes de la Frontera, as the main center; The Colmenar and the Glen of the Royal Treasury or the station Cortes, Cortes to gather in celebration of this, your big feast.