Sargadelos is one of the best examples of the influence of the Enlightment on Galicia, that at that time was still under the feudal influence that had taken it to a great decay. Ibáñez was inspired by the prevailing European movement of cultural and economic renovation, and he set up a smelting factory in the north of Lugo later turned into a ceramics factory that imitated English production, especially the so-called "Bristol type".