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Estación de Cortes de la Frontera: Well the name may give you a big clue that this pueblo is a railway town. It is in the valley bottom below Cortes de la Frontera.
The towns of the area were often built high on the hillsides for defensive reasons. When the British built the Algeciras to Ronda railway along the valley bottom. Pueblos like Estación de Cortes de la Frontera sprang up or enlarged to serve the larger pueblo on the hillside above. This is the picturesque station house where eight trains a day stop (four in each direction). You can get on here and travel directly to Granada. We intend visiting the Alhambra Palace and are planning to go by train from Estación de Cortes de la Frontera.
Ronda is around 40 minutes away.
You can go to San Roque - La Linea and then a taxi to Gibraltar.
Algeciras and a ferry to Morocco.
Seville, Cordoba, Málaga (airport) can all be reached by changing at Bobadilla.

So all the places mentioned can be planned as day trips if you make an early start. There are a number of British people living in and around Estación de Cortes de la Frontera. This street is blocked off for a few hours in August and bulls are turned loose, They then run up and down! You have a great vantage point from the balconies. A few minutes walk downstream and the countryside and views are incredible. The Oleander bushes grow all along the riverbank. Here are a few more shots taken down by the river.
The water is a unpleasant bluish colour. There was a donkey standing in the shade of a tree near the river, just waiting to be photographed. Donkeys are always worth photographing! The Rio Guadiaro is not clean. Swimming and paddling are not advisable.
Drinking this stuff will probably make you very ill. Back into Estación de Cortes de la Frontera but still by the river we spotted this family of white ducks. This shoal of around one hundred barbel was basking in the sun in about six inches of water. Some were quite large. We thought this was the Town Hall but it is a very impressive looking Medical Centre.
Below are a couple of tiles we spotted. The first in the station. RENFE is Spanish equivalent of BR. (Probably a massive insult to RENFE).
The second is a large welcome sign near the level crossing. This is the Gecko from above the doorway of the El Gecko restaurant. There are also a number of good bars in Estación de Cortes de la Frontera which serve food. Estación de Cortes de la Frontera is tricky to photograph from the hillside above, it stretches out along the railway track and on both sides of the river. The river provides all year round water to some large trees which make getting a shot of the pueblo tricky. Well there's the excuse and here's the best shot so I've managed to get so far. Anyone got a helicopter? Finally back to the railway. After a quick check of the timetable, I decided to risk life and limb for this arty farty up the track shot. Estación de Cortes de la Frontera has a growing British community.
It sits in the bottom of the Guadiaro valley and has good views looking out and up at the surrounding hills.
The only real minus is that the river is polluted by sewage from Ronda.
It does also get quite cold and foggy in winter as the cold air sinks to the bottom of the valley.