Until July 12th, 1990 there were up to 5 versions of the Spanish ID card, but in that year appears the first computerized ID card of the Spanish history. A curious fact is that for the design of this unitary document a contest was carried out with 30,000 pesetas for the chosen sketch. After 150 years of using other types of documents to identify people such as identity cards or interior passports that lacked a photograph so they had written on them the description of the person. The current NID was born during the Franquist dictatorship on March 2, 1944. Would you like to know better our Spanish ID cards in the year of its 75th anniversary? So keep reading, we explain these questions in the following article: A little bit of History: Evolution of the Spanish ID cards
The potential of using it, the meaning of some fields like the MRZ or even the security measures that they incorporate (laser marks, holograms). We daily take it everywhere inside our wallet and the great majority of us don’t really know which version of the Spanish ID Cards are carrying. We use the Spanish ID Cards as the main mechanism to identify us before any public organism or authority.
