The creation of the General Archive of Aran (AGA) was agreed upon through an agreement signed on 7 September 1995 between the Department of Culture and Media of the Government of Catalonia (Generalitat de Catalunya), the local government (General Council of Aran) and the City Council of Vielha e Mijaran. The facilities were inaugurated on 7 November 1998 by the Most Honourable Mr. Jordi Pujol, then President of the Generalitat de Catalunya.
The headquarters of the Archive is Çò d’Ademà, an old manor house, better known as Casa deth Senhor d’Arròs, a building that was built around 1820 by Francisco Ademà Subirà. The house is also the institutional headquarters of the General Council of Aran.
The AGA ordinarily receives the documentation of the General Council of Aran, as well as other public institutions in the territory. Also, by agreement, of private institutions or natural or legal persons who wish to deposit or donate their funds in accordance with the provisions of Law 10/2001, on archives and document management.
As relevant funds we highlight the historical documentation of the highest Aranese institution and the large volume of patrimonial funds from several Aranese manor houses. The auxiliary library has books on regional topics and social sciences in general.
The Vallès Oriental Regional Archive (ACVO), inaugurated on 30 September 2005, is part of the Regional Archives Network of the Catalan Goverment (Generalitat de Catalunya) and is managed jointly by the Vallès Oriental Regional Council and the Granollers City Council, in accordance with the agreement signed on 29 December of the same year between the Department of Culture, the Regional Council and the Granollers City Council.
The capacity of the ACVO is 10,000 linear metres of shelving, of which 6,600 are currently occupied. Among the documentary collections deposited in the archive, we can highlight those of the city councils of Aiguafreda, Castellterçol, Granollers, Santa Eulàlia de Ronçana and Tagamanent; also, the documentation of the Vallès Oriental Regional Council, the funds of the archive of notarial protocols of the district of Granollers, of the courts of first instance of Granollers and Mollet, of the Regional Office of the Department of Agriculture or of the agrarian chambers of various towns.
Also worth noting is the photographic fund of the magazine Sport Comarcal; the patrimonial or farmhouse funds, which contain nearly 400 parchments ranging from the 12th to the 17th century, or the fund of the barony of Montbui, a jurisdiction made up of Santa Eulàlia, Bigues, Riells, l’Ametlla, Lliçà d’Amunt, Palaudàries and Sant Mateu de Montbui. There are also several personal funds.
The ACVO also guards an important newspaper library fund (regional magazines and municipal bulletins), as well as a collection of local monographs that are constantly being updated. In addition, it shares facilities with the Municipal Archive of Granollers, which has deposited part of its documentary, newspaper and image collection there. A large part of the ACVO's collection can be viewed online through the Arxius en Línia and XAC Premsa portals.
The Solsonès Regional Archive (ACS), which is part of the Generalitat Archives Network, was inaugurated on March 30, 1995. The creation agreement was signed on January 31, 1984. It currently holds more than 1,000 linear meters of documentation and, chronologically, it spans from the 13th century to the present day.
Among the documentary collections that make up the archive are the City of Solsona Archive and the old notary of the Solsona district; alongside it, due to its special importance, we must add the Josep Maria Vicens i Purgimon (1910-1955) photographic collection, as well as a significant number of collections from the Solsona associative fabric: the Orfeó Nova Solsona, the Associació de Festes del Carnaval, etc. In 2010, the ACS celebrated its 15th anniversary; During this time, it has gathered more than 160 documentary funds and collections, and has consolidated a strong bond with the society of Solsona.
The archive is closely related to the territory and, since its birth, had a great territorial vocation. This reality is evident in many facts; for example, more than 89% of the documentary funds of the local Administration are in the Regional Archive. Its premises occupy part of the old hospital of Llobera, an outstanding building of Catalan civil Gothic.
The Regional Archive of La Selva (ACSE) was created on June 16, 1982, and was officially inaugurated on April 29, 1983.
The first headquarters of the archive was located on the ground floor of the old College of Nuns of the Heart of Mary, located on Ave Maria Street in Santa Coloma de Farners. In the winter of 2005, the Regional Archive moved temporarily to Francesc Camprodon Street, where it remained until March 2015. On March 21 of this year, the new building was inaugurated, located on Sant Dalmau Street, in the old town of Santa Coloma de Farners.
The ACSE has 2,100 linear meters of documentation deposited from the 13th to the 21st century. The municipal collections of Breda, Massanes, Osor, Santa Coloma de Farners, Sant Miquel de Cladells and Vidreres stand out; the notarial collection of the Santa Coloma district; collections of various kinds (Prat, Rovirola, Masoller, Vinyes, Trias, Termes Orion, Agricultural and Forestry Training School, etc.), and the collection of the military clinic no. 5 of the International Brigades. Also noteworthy is the collection of printed matter (more than 8,300 between 1829 and 2015), as well as the photographic collections of Francesc Xavier Aulí and the Oller family (19th-20th centuries). The archive also has a library specializing in regional topics (5,000 registered books) and an auxiliary newspaper library (19th-20th centuries).
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The Regional Archive of the Ribera d’Ebre (ACRE) is a new building that was built on a plot of more than 1,000 m2 that was owned by the City Council of Móra d’Ebre. Externally, it is designed as a single corner volume that is segregated into two volumes, which are accessed through an interior patio created by the screen walls and the building itself.
The Archive was inaugurated on April 24, 2007. It is attached to the Department of Culture and is part of the Regional Archives Network. Its management corresponds, jointly, to the City Council of Móra d’Ebre and the Regional Council of the Ribera d'Ebre.
The main mission of the center is to preserve and manage the funds of public administrations, institutions or individuals of the Ribera d'Ebre. The management and conservation of documentation is complemented by the equally important task of disseminating this documentary heritage and making it available to the citizens of the region.
The ACRE manages 74 documentary collections, totaling an approximate volume of 1,052.2 linear meters. The local administration collections stand out (Móra d’Ebre Town Council, Torre de l’Espanyol, Benissanet, Tivissa, Rasquera, Ginestar, Vinebre, Ascó and Palma d’Ebre). The Archive also manages important documentary collections of private ownership.
The agreement to create the Priorat Regional Archive (ACPR) was signed on 22 September 2000 and was inaugurated on 27 July 2005.
The Archive is located in one of the buildings that form part of the castle in the town of Falset. Construction of the castle began at the end of the 12th century, on a small hill located to the west of the town. The same space housed, for many years, the heritage archive of the Catalan territories of the Duchy of Medinaceli.
The most significant documentary collections of the archive are, among others: those of the town councils of Falset and Capçanes; the microfilmed collections of the barony of Entença and the county of Prades; that of the Roger de Cabacés farmhouse, and that of Joan Pascó i Ardèvol, notary of Porrera and, later, of Falset, which has a good part of the notarial drafts, from the end of the 18th century to the first third of the 19th century, which partly replace the loss of the district's notarial archive in 1936. It is worth noting the large number of funds from agricultural cooperatives in the region that have been deposited there; specifically, ten, and the oldest is the Sindicat Vinícola del Baix Priorat de Marçà, created in 1912.
