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Double tracks and two platforms, Cártama train station is on the C-2 local line (known as Cercanías) with services every hour. It is also on the medium distance line connecting Malaga-María Zambrano and Ronda.

Ermita de Nuestra Señora de los Remedios - the town's patron saint - is still a focus of reverent pilgrimage for devout locals, and is perched high above Cártama's twisting streets. The shrine is well worth the visit and can be reached by climbing the vertiginous zig-zag path from the main square near the Pilar Alto Fountain. If it is a hot day, take some water along for the climb.

While the sprawling white town of Cártama undoubtedly impresses the visitor now, with its ruined hilltop fortress, how much more impressive it must have been in its Roman heyday, with a formidable castle protecting both the town and the river valley - Cartama stands at the head of the Rio Guadalhorce.

Cártama celebrates a wide range of traditional festivals throughout the year. Two of the most important — Verdiales and Holy Week (Semana Santa) — have now been officially recognised as Festivals of National Tourist Interest. 

The Tourist Office of Cártama is located within the Town Hall building, in the centre of the municipality.

Cartama is included in the Consorcio de Transporte Metropolitano del Área de Málaga.

The Phoenicians, once established in Málaga, explored the interior via the Guadalhorce River, founding a settlement called ‘Cartha’.  In 195 BC, the Romans renamed the town 'Carthima'; it flourished as a centre for processing marble and a trading town for the rich supply of raw minerals extracted from the hills around. Carthima became wealthy and fashionable, and was noted for its fine baths and villas, and magnificent statues of the town's preferred deities, Mars and Venus.

Things to see in Cartama include Ermita de Nuestra Señora de los Remedios, Fuente de Pilar Alto, Iglesia Parroquia de San Pedro Apostol, Castillo de Cártama, Estación de Cártama, Puente de Hierro, Cruz de Humilladero, Ermita de Casapalma, Museo de Ntra Sra de los Remedios and the Capilla de Sierra Gibralgalia