Archivio di Stato di Ravenna

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The State Archive of Ravenna is the peripheral office of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism which by law [1] preserves the historical documentation produced by the public bodies of the province of Ravenna and for voluntary deposit, temporary custody, donation or purchase any other archive or documentary collection of historical importance.

It is located in the former Benedictine complex of San Vitale.

The State Archive also includes the Faenza section.

The State Archives of Ravenna, established as a section of the State Archive by ministerial decree 15 May 1941, became the State Archive following the decree of the President of the Republic 30 September 1963, n. 1409. It initially brought together the archival collections preserved until then in the Classense municipal library : religious corporations, part of the ancient judicial archives, legations of Romagnaand Ravenna, together with the municipal historical archive. The deposit of the latter was however withdrawn by the Municipality of Ravenna in 1956, on the occasion of the transfer of the section to the building of the cloisters that were already part of the Convent of San Francesco. Since 1965 he has under his responsibility the State Archive Section of Faenza. The availability of larger premises, especially with the transfer to the headquarters in Via Guaccimanni in 1966, has on the other hand permitted the gathering and gathering of a considerable number of archives of offices and public bodies, together with some private archives of the city and the Ravenna district (with Alfonsine and Cervia ), as well as the territories of ancient Este Romagna ( Bagnacavallo, Conselice ,Cotignola , Fusignano , Lugo , Massa Lombarda , Sant'Agata sul Santerno ) that from 1598 to 1859 had been part of the legation of Ferrara.

Since 2008, the Archive has been housed in a building belonging to the former Benedictine complex of San Vitale, a more suitable location as it is located within a vast area called the "Citadel of culture" in which the offices of the Superintendency are also housed for architectural and landscape assets, the National Museum of Ravenna , the Operations Center of the Superintendency for the archaeological heritage of the Emilia-Romagna Region , the School for the restoration of the mosaic and the Restoration Laboratory of the Superintendency. [2] [3]

Heritage The documentation is strictly complementary not only with that of the municipal historical archive, but also with that of the rich historical diocesan archive: with the latter, for the most ancient period and up to the end of the century. XVIII, it shares the sphere of influence, which, beyond the borders of the present province, extends to the whole of Romagna and to parts of the Ferrara and Marche regions.

Among the most important documentation there are funds of a post-unitary era fundamental for the reconstruction of the events of the history of the province such as the Prefecture and the Police Headquarters; in addition to these, the archive of the Civil Engineers of Ravenna which also preserves the material of the engineer in chief of water and roads of the Rubicon department and of the engineer of the Apostolic Legation of Ravenna. The financial documentation and the most conspicuous consistency is the cadastral documentation coming from the Ravenna State Technical Office and from the district offices of direct taxes of Ravenna and Lugo di Romagna: through maps, correspondence and registers it is possible to retrace the passages of ownership of land and manufactured. The notarial archives and those of institutions deposited with the

They are no longer heritage of the State Archive: archive of the Municipality of Sant'Agata sul Santerno (1527-1905), already kept in storage, as it was withdrawn by the municipality itself on November 13, 2001; Coats of arms of the governments of Ravenna and Romagna (1845-1955), returned to the Prefecture of Ravenna in 2004 of which the entire reproduction on color slides was cured in 1971.