OF THE TOLEDO SWORDS Toledo swords, for centuries, when the
issue of a fight depended not only on the personal ability of
the fighter, but also on another decisive factor - the
perfection of his weapon - with Toledo swords exceptional steel
were forged the most terrible arms in the world. Their
extraordinary hardness made of each of these Toledo swords an
invincible force in the hands of an expert swordsman. All
European armies knew the superior quality of Toledo steel swords
and many great warriors relied only on sabers of Toledan
provenance. Their origin of the Toledo swords comes from the
most ancient Spanish customs. More than 2,000 years ago, in the
5th century B.C. , Iberian blacksmiths already forged Toledo
swords known as falcata which had an iron blade inside and a
special design made to increase the bluntness of the Due to
their fame, these Toledo swords were choosen by Hannibal for his
army and the Roman legions, defeated by those weapons, adopted
them later and supplied their centurions with the d