Gitano street markets are picturesque like in Pamla on my first visit to Mallorca back in 1964.

The gypsies/gitanos  originated in the Punjab/India, and fled during clashes between invading Arabs and Mongols  a thousand years ago. On their long journey, they travelled the Middle East. They became so closely associated with Egypt that they eventually came to believe that they were descendants of the Pharaohs, a legend to which many of their songs still refer - as a result of which they were called Egyptians, or "Gypcians" in English; while, in old Spanish, gitano was simply a way of saying "Egyptian". Having no written history, they had forgotten where they really came from.