place

Municipal Archive of Valencia

1238 establishments in Europe13th-century establishments in SpainArchives established in the 13th centuryArchives in SpainCrown of Aragon
History of ValenciaValencia
Palau de Cervelló, a València
Palau de Cervelló, a València

The Historical Archive of the City of València (or València Municipal Archives) is the main public historical archive of the city government of València, Spain. Regarded as one of Spain's and Europe's most important municipal archives, it holds administrative, legal, economic, notarial, guild, cartographic, photographic, and civil records documenting the history of the city of Valencia and its surroundings. The archive was established after the city's conquest by king James I of Aragon in 1238, it preserves municipal records from 1239 onward from the times of the Kingdom of Valencia, with its oldest document dating to 1226. The archival fonds have occupied several locations throughout its history and is housed in the Palace of Cervelló since 2003. Among its most notable holdings are the medieval codices of the Furs of Valencia and the Book of the Consulate of the Sea, as well as the Council Manuals, Book of Mustaçaf, royal privileges, notarial records, and the records of the municipal Taula de Canvis (Exchange Table). The archive also provides research services and continues the digitization and electronic preservation of its collections.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Municipal Archive of Valencia (License: CC BY-SA 3.0, Authors, Images).

Municipal Archive of Valencia
Plaça de Tetuan, Valencia Ciutat Vella

Geographical coordinates (GPS) Address Phone number Website Nearby Places
placeShow on map

Wikipedia: Municipal Archive of ValenciaContinue reading on Wikipedia

Geographical coordinates (GPS)

Latitude Longitude
N 39.474231 ° E -0.370331 °
placeShow on map

Address

Palau de Cevelló

Plaça de Tetuan 3
46003 Valencia, Ciutat Vella
Valencian Community, Spain
mapOpen on Google Maps

Phone number

call+34963525478

Website
valencia.es

linkVisit website

Palau de Cervelló, a València
Palau de Cervelló, a València
Share experience

Nearby Places

Palace of the Marqués de Dos Aguas
Palace of the Marqués de Dos Aguas

The Palace of the Marquis of Dos Aguas (Spanish: Palacio del Marqués de Dos Aguas, Valencian: Palau del Marqués de Dosaigües) is a Rococo nobility palace, historically important in the city, is located in one of the most central locations in the city of Valencia (Spain), stately mansion that was of the Marqueses of Dos Aguas, currently owned by the Spanish State, where houses the González Martí National Museum of Ceramics and Decorative Arts. A noble knight, Don Francisco Perellós, a descendant of the counts of Tolosa, married in the early 15th century to Joanna Perellós, only daughter of the wealthy Mosen Gines de Rabassa, the descendants of this marriage took the surname of Rabassa de Perellós. This family acquired by purchase the barony of Dosaigües in 1496, being elevated to marquisate by King Charles II of Spain in 1699. Historians say, that the house of the Marqueses of Dos Aguas was considered in Valencia for centuries, as a paragon of nobility and opulence and that, its fortune came from the year 1500, at which time a family of merchants, the Rabassa, is enriched, first with the commercial treatment and then with the leases of the rights of the Generalitat Valenciana, i.e. the contracts of indirect contributions. The Rabassa de Perellós family continued their business with the Generalitat, while occupying high positions in the political government of Valencia and accumulated skills and important heredities through intermarriage with other important Valencian noble families. The space in which it is located is believed that was probably originally the field intended to a Roman necropolis of the 1st and 3rd centuries, due to the findings in one of its courtyards on September 9, 1743.