The Institute, originally established as a State Archive Section by Ministerial Decree on June 7, 1941, in accordance with the law of December 22, 1939, no. 2006, became a State Archive following the Presidential Decree of September 30, 1963, no. 1409. The Section integrated archival collections, mostly coming from the community chancery of Arezzo, which Ubaldo Pasqui, a local history scholar, had gathered since 1885 into a single, large documentary complex.
The main groups consisted of the archive of the ancient Municipality, the archives of numerous jurisdictional organs of the Tuscan state, numerous collections belonging to religious corporations, hospitals, church works and other city institutions, as well as various parchments, cadastral deeds, and different documents.
Palazzo Albergotti
The Palace belongs to a building complex formed by the merging of buildings belonging to noble families of Arezzo aligned with the Guelph faction (Camaiani, Sassoli, Albergotti). These buildings were constructed in the terminal stretch of Borgo Maestro (today’s Corso Italia). In fact, the building – dating back to the fourteenth century – is located at the intersection of Corso Italia and Via degli Albergotti and initially belonged to this powerful family, as did all the major buildings arranged along the street of the same name. The corner portion, from the thirteenth century, derives from a remnant of a pre-existing tower.
The building, extensively remodeled in the Renaissance period, was restored at the beginning of the twentieth century; the latest intervention includes decorations by Galileo Chini and the creation of the entrance from Via degli Albergotti. This entrance currently provides access to the halls of the State Archive, whose collections of acts and documents occupy the entire structure. On the lower side (on the Corso Italia side) stands the distinctive Torre della Bigazza, erected in the fourteenth century, later “trimmed” and then raised again, with a questionable twentieth-century intervention.
Information about the Arezzo State Archive
Piazza del Commissario, 1
Arezzo (Arezzo)
057520803 – 0575354007
as-ar@beniculturali.it
https://www.archiviostato.arezzo.it/
Source: MIBACT
