The Spanish State Archives () are the primary network of public archives and related documentation centres in Spain. The State Archives are maintained by the General Under-directorate for State Archives () under the Directorate General of Cultural Heritage and Fine Arts () of Spain's Ministry of Culture.
Archives and centers
Main Archives The network consists in a number of different collections spread across nine fonds:
Archive of the Crown of Aragon (, Barcelona), General Archive of Simancas () Archive of the Royal Chancery of Valladolid () General Archive of the Indies (, Seville) National Historical Archive (, AHN, in Madrid) General Archive of the Administration (, AGA, ) the main repository for the records of the ministries of the central administration, created in 1969 as a replacement for the Central Archive which was destroyed in a fire during the Civil War in 1939, Documentary Centre for Historical Memory () Historical Archive of the Nobility () Historical Archive of Social Movements (, AHMS)
Additional centres
There are two additional research support centres: the Centre for Archives Documental information (, CIDA) and the Document Reproduction Service (, SRDAE).
There are additional public Archives managed by the , including:
Central Archive of Culture, Central Archive of the Secretary of State for Education, Archives Documentary Information Center (CIDA), Document Reproduction Service (SRDAE).
PARES: Portal of Spanish Archives The (PARES; Portal of Spanish Archives) is an "e-access point for digitized materials from Spanish archives", catalogue and open access database for the various collections within the National Archives. It was opened in 2007 and updated to PARES 2.0 in May 2016, totaling 33.9 million digital images and 8.6 million document archives.
Other public archives in Spain Due to the decentralised character of the Spanish historical administrations, a number of public archive collections are held in municipal or local archival fonds, the most notable being:
National Archive of Catalonia, Historical Archive of the City of Valencia, Archive of the Kingdom of València, managed jointly between the Spanish Ministry of Culture and the , , , The and the Library of Catalonia, University archives in Seville, Madrid, or Barcelona, Some smaller municipalities are custodians of important archives, such as .
References
External links Site of the Archives Department of the Spanish Ministry of Culture List of State Archives on PARES