Toledo Shopping

Toledo swords have always been famous even back to Hannibal’s day, who used them for his army. Other notables such as Cid Campeador, King Charles IV, D’Artagnan and his Musketeers as well as Japan’s famous Samurai’s found the Toledo steel to be of exceptional quality.

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In the stores you will see some beautiful Damascene plates and large platters some with arabesques and others with geometric designs or religious patterns. You can also find lovely damascene jewellery. It seems however that most of this jewellery ware is for the tourist and the local or Spanish tourist rarely purchase it for wear.

This store is housed in a 100 year old factory is in a small square. The have a large selection of swords, some modelled on the swords of El Cid, Garcia Peredes, Francisco Pizarro and Alfonso X not to mention the religion order of warrior monks, the Knights Templars. The store offers delivery to your home country to avoid problems at airports.

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There is no shortage of places to buy souveniers in Toledo. There is a wide variety of choices to tempt all interests from local marzipan, local produce and cheeses especially Manchego cheeses to painted tiles, walking sticks, knives and swords to anything to do with Don Quijote and El Greco.

What to buy: Toledo

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Toledo is not a big city so it hasn't got lots of shops, but some.
If you're looking for clothes there are different areas in which you could find them: Luz del Tajo and Puerta de Toledo (shopping centers), and Santa Teresa and the Old Town (districts).The advantage of going to shopping centers is that they have more products, but you will need a car or to go by bus cause they are far away from the city.In the Old Town there is a specific street called Comercio st in which clothing shops are concentrated and which is usually crowded. In Santa Teresa district there are mainly sports shops. I, for one, as a teenager, like Groovy (Luz del tajo and Sta Teresa) and Pull and Bear (Luz del Tajo and the Old town).

What to buy: In Toledo there are some special items you should shop for, as "damasquinos" or medieval weapons.
Toledo is a medieval city and that's why it still preserves some ancient traditions as making damasquino and antique weapons. Damasquinos is a decorative art wich consists of in-laying iron and steel with gold and silver. In the Old Town there are many shops that do this task. There are also a lot of shops which make swords and other medieval weapons and which are very famous within the country.

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Just about every souvenir shop in Toledo has wonderful displays of pottery amd plates etched in a traditional way. They also sell beautiful jewellery, especially wonderful hoop earings. Check these out, because exactly the same items are much more expensive in Madrid.

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There are some fantastic examples of medievil armour in just about every souvenir shop in Toledo. They range in price , the average probably being around $2000. If this is too steep, then individual pieces of armor are sold seperately eg helmet, gloves, which can start you on the road to becoming a modern day knight. Wonderful displays of shields as well.

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There are numerous shops selling the world famous Toledo swords. Apparently, The Templar Knights placed high value on swords from Toledo and the old town is brimming with shops selling them. They range in price from 10-15 Euros to thousands, but for the enthusiast, reasonable swords can be obtained for reasonable prices. There are so many shops that we spent almost the entire day looking at them. This is a definately fascinating town for boys.
The sellers are happy to ship any swords back home, however check with your customs departments about required permits