Some years ago we had the great opportunity to visit parts of central Europe 
as part of two separate ABANA tours.  The countries we visited were: 
Germany, Czech Republic, Austria (in 1999), then Spain, France and Andorra in 2001, just after "9/11".
The ironwork 
over there is astonishing both in span and in volume, compared to the USA. Of 
course, they have been at it for a thousand years longer than we in the USA 
have.
These two small picture galleries will focus on, not the ironwork, but the 
tooling we saw which differs from tooling that I personally am familiar with here in the 
USA.
Thanks for looking!