Cortes de la Frontera
With an area of 17.000 hectares of cork trees and
situated on the last foothills of "La Serranía
de Ronda", Cortes de la Frontera is a cosy town
with a population of 3.700 inhabitants that are distributed
in three urban centres: Cortes de la Frontera, Cañada
del Real Tesoro and the district of El Colmenar.
Apart from the passing of the Phoenicians, in the
Eleventh and Twelfth B.C., and the Greek occupation,
its first settlers were the Romans, who named the
town Cortex, which means "Cuirass", meaning
"protection", kept by the Arabs and which
has remained so to date. From Roman times, there are
two urban centres of great importance: The ruins of
what was the city known as "Saeponia"
or "Seponta" and the remains of the city
known as "Cortes el Viejo", very near
the town. Although it was conquered by San Fernando
in 1248,it was reconquered by the Arabs until the
its definitive fall in 1485.
Its most significant monuments are the town hall building,
from 1784, the bullring, from 1894 and restored in
1921, the Church of "Ntra. Sra. Del Rosario"
hailing from the end of the Eighteenth century and
"La Casa de Piedra", from Paleo- Christian
origin and dating from the Sixth and Seventeenth Centuries.
The most important festivities of the town are "Las
Fiestas de Agosto", in honour of its Patron
Saints, San Roque and San Sebastián, and the
Romeria which is celebrated at the beginning of June,
in honour of its Patron, "Nuestra Señora
del Rosario".
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