The Museo de Bandolero, or Bandit Museum in Ronda Town Centre in Andalucia is
the only museum in Spain devoted to this subject (the 'bandoleros' or bandits).
The Museum shows the background, origins & history of this social phenomenon. Ronda Bandit museum shows interesting
developments through the documents, pictures, personal details, diaries and events
covering, first hand, what happened to all the bandits who lived in the 'Serrania de Ronda'.
The Bandit Museum consists of four galleries: (Virtual Tours in Left Margin)
- 'Gallery of the Romantic Travellers': An Exhibition of paintings of that
time as well as several historical documents, like birth and death
certificates, edicts, Spanish Royal laws, etc.
- Gallery "Living Bandits world". This section of Ronda Bandit Museum consists of diograms, maps,
pictures, weapons, money and coins, official stamps, paintings, etc.
- Gallery "The Men and the Names". This Gallery is dedicated to the
better known, most famous bandoleros (bandits), still remembered by song & story (Oral tradition) and who belong to
the romantic age of the Bandits: Diego Corrientes, José María El Tempranillo,
el Tragabuches, amongst others...
- Gallery "The ones who followed the trace". This section of the Museum gives an insight into the fight against the Bandits: the Guardia Civil (The Civil Guard was the local police at the villages),
a police spezialized in the fight against bandits. It shows their uniforms,
pictures, documents, etc.
At the same time, Ronda's Bandit Museum offers several other historical details, a gift & souvenir shop, plus a reconstruction of a tavern of the era and
also an audiovisual exposition about Bandits.
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