 El Cids sword "Tizona" can still be seen in the Army Museum (Museo  Del Ejército) in Madrid. Soon after his death, it became one of the  most precious possessions of the Castilian royal family. And in  1999, a small sample of the blade underwent metallurgical analysis  which partially confirmed that it was made in Moorish Cordoba in the  eleventh century, although the report does not specify whether the  larger