The Romancero gitano (often translated into English as Gypsy Ballads) is a poetry collection by Spanish writer Federico García Lorca.

All of the poems deal with the Romani people and their culture, but only as a theme used to carry the larger message that the poet was trying to convey.

García Lorca himself described the work as a "carved altar piece" of Andalusia with "gypsies, horses, archangels, planets, its Jewish and Roman breezes, rivers, crimes, the everyday touch of the smuggler and the celestial note of the naked children of Córdoba.

[1] The book brought him fame across Spain and the Hispanic world; it would only be until much later in his life that he gained notability as a playwright.

For the rest of his life, the writer would search for the elements of Andalusian culture, trying to find its essence without resorting to the "picturesque" or the clichéd use of "local colour".