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It has been said that the art of working iron is the true Spanish craft. The chronicles say that the Roman conquerors of the peninsula threw away their swords in favour of the falcata iberica because of the perfect technique with which the iron was worked by the native population. This reputation reached new heights a few centuries later with the swords from Toledo or the popular, artistic grilles.

Today the changes in the way of life and the technological progress accompanying the industrial society are responsible for the perhaps definitive decline of these crafts in the cultural environment of Spain by substituting the traditional process of shaping the iron in the forge for cast iron production.