As I'd mentioned in the Chihuahua post, the Pancho Villa museum was really impressive. He lived a very interesting life. He was married 25 times, had about 25 children, was considered a bandit by U.S authorities and a hero in Mexico. His name is synonymous with the Mexican Revolution. And in the city of Chihuahua there is a Pancho Villa everything, Villa tortas, Villa hamburgesas...his name is also used to brand a few tequilas (even though he did not drink alcohol but that's marketing for you).
The story according to our tour guide is that he built this house for his second wife, Maria Luz Corral. She was the only wife that held on to the marriage certificate so it could never be destroyed, hence making her his only legal wife. She is responsible for establishing the museum, and upon her death she granted the house along with the memorabilia to the government to continue the museum in his name. Now, I think that is pretty damn nice of her considering he had a STRING of women and new wives in his life....
pic 1: The house is called La Quinta Luz
pic 2: This is the car in which Pancho Villa was assassinated. The car was shot between 13 to 17 times. They showed photos of his bloody death and it was pretty sick. His intestines were hanging out on the bed and his arm was cut into pieces from the bullet wounds. It was a series of awful awful photos.
pic 3: This was the soldiers quarters behind the main house where he and Luz lived. This area also held a secret tunnel to take Pancho and crew 2 blocks from the house.
pci 4: mural recently painted by a muralist from Puebla.
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