Archivio di Stato di Ancona

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The State Archives of Ancona, Italy, is the peripheral office of the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities which according to the law preserves the historical documentation produced by the peripheral state administrations in the province of Ancona and for voluntary storage, temporary storage, donation or purchase of any other archive or documentary collection of historical importance.

The State Archives of Ancona was established with the DPR 30 September 1963 n. 1409, which marked the arrival point of a process of documentary concentration that began in the aftermath of the Unification of Italy, when the papers of past magistrates - the Apostolic Delegation, the Napoleonic Prefecture, the temporary and extraordinary governmental bodies and corporations suppressed religious - were gathered in the seat of the former convent of Santa Palazia, and then moved in 1886 to the Palace of Justice. That documentary core constituted the patrimony of the Provincial Archive of Ancona, established, at the request of the Provincial Administration and following an agreement between the State and the Province, on 14 May 1919 on the model of those already existing in the country.

The next step was the establishment, with Ministerial Decree of 18 May 1941, of a Section of State Archives, which began to function in June 1942 with the same documentary material and in the same premises as the previous institute and suffered serious damage in the following years due to of aerial bombardments and unwary discards. The actual institute's activities gathered momentum in the post-war phase and in those years came new acquisitions, from the Archive of Ancona district notary in 1950 and the Court of Appeal, the Court and the District Court in 1954-1955, while the The provincial office of Leva made a progressive series of payments fduced by the political, administrative and judicial institutions of the pre-unification States and the Italian State, the State Archive preserves archives of local bodies (Municipality and Province of Ancona), notarial archives of the various squares in the province of Ancona, private archives of illustrious families, such as Ferretti and Benincasa, of personalities from the political life of the city (Oddo Marinelli, Giovanni Conti, Guido Salmoni etc.) as well as public and private funds acquired in various capacities (deposit, purchase, donation), including the archive of the former psychiatric hospital, for a total of over 17 linear km of documentation.

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