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General information

The Central Archive of the Ministry of Territorial Policy has the task of preserving, organizing and disseminating the documents generated by the General Administration of the State.

HISTORY OF THE INSTITUTION THAT HOLDS THE ARCHIVAL FUNDS

The history of the Archive begins with the creation of the Ministry for Public Administrations, through Royal Decree 1519/1986, of July 25 (BOE no. 178, of 26 July), formed on the basis of the Ministry of Territorial Administration and the State Secretariat for Public Administration, formerly integrated into the Ministry of the Presidency.
In turn, the Ministry of Territorial Administration had been formed on the basis of the functions attributed at the time to the Deputy Minister for the Regions, also dependent, until 1979, on the Ministry of the Presidency and the General Directorate of Local Administration, integrated in the Ministry of the Interior.

The anomalies that arose in the operation of the corresponding ministerial archival systems led to the subsequent transfer to the Central Archive of the Ministry for Public Administrations of different documentation processed by management bodies dependent on other departments.
This is why the documentation housed in the Ministry’s Central Archive runs from 1937 to the present day, although a lot of old documentation has been transferred to the General Archives of the Administration.

BUILDING AND WAREHOUSES

The premises of the Central Archive are located in the Palacio de la Condesa de Adanero, in the Chamberí district of Madrid, which was built between 1910 and 1914 on the grounds of the former Royal Tapestry Factory, demolished by the urban operation of the Ensanche de Madrid (also known as the Castro Plan). This Palace was sold to the State in 1941.

The documentation stored in the Central Archive is distributed between two warehouses, the main one located in the Palacio de Villamejor, a building designed in 1887 by the master of works José Purkiss Zubiria as the residence of the marquises of Villamejor, Ana de Torres Romo and Ignacio de Figueroa, and which subsequently, from 1914 to 1977, was the seat of the Council of Ministers.

The second deposit is located in the building located on Calle José Marañón, 7.