In 1974, the Prof. Dr. Fernando de Sousa, with a team of University students started the inventory of Municipal Archive of Torre de Moncorvo. The Archive was a dependency of the City Council, at the Court, in an accelerated process of degradation has not been possible to recover some series. The inventory made by Prof. Dr. Fernando de Sousa, with the collaboration of Dr. Nelson Rebanda revealed that the Archive was essentially two funds: the collection of Scrolls, with 112 scrolls and about 130 paper documents, from the thirteenth to the nineteenth century; and the Fund of Manuscripts, having 869 species and 7 folders containing single item mail. It relates to the period from the early seventeenth century and the early twentieth century.
In the same year, the Archive was moved to the building of the Town Hall. In the late eighties, the city council rents a building where is a room reservation for settling the Municipal Archives.
In 1999, the archive was transferred to a restored building and equipped with all necessary for the conservation of collections technical conditions. Getting installed here documentation from the thirteenth to the nineteenth century.
The remaining information produced by the structure were scattered in different buildings of the municipality and in a building donated by Francisco António Meireles Foundation. In 2001, the City Council submitted an application to the PARAM (Program Support to Network Municipal Archives), to construct a building for the installation of the archive and adapt it with the means and equipment necessary to fulfill the archival function. The Municipal Archive of Torre de Moncorvo, now has another building.
At existing documentation, located at including Street Infante D. Henrique and said in inventory of Prof. Dr. Fernando de Sousa, was proposed to be reclassified, and built more than 331 documents from the seventeenth century to 1930, from Proceedings, Minutes of Proceedings, books of Voter Registration, Election notebooks, etc. Transcribed in 1200 documented species. The remaining document collection, estimated at 800 linear meters, whose extreme dates vary between 1912 and 2012, was concentrated on the building of Travessa Tomás Ribeiro, proceeding to the physical storage through cleaning, packing and installation of documentary species. The process of reclassification was based on knowing the Town Council of Moncorvo institution, its structure, formation and evolution that has taken over the centuries, never forgetting the economic, social and political factors that influenced it.
Activity developed by it resulted in an extensive document production that has been accumulating in the institution constitutes important information system whose extreme dates fall between the thirteenth and twenty-first centuries. The documentary core of the Municipal Archive of Torre de Moncorvo is very heterogeneous, and may be of interest to scholars and researchers in various aspects, beyond the historical and palaeographic, particularly in the cultural and social background of the county and region level. This archive consists mostly for the valuable fund that concerns administrative activities of the Municipality and Collection of Scrolls. In addition to these, more 19 funds that make the Municipal Archive of Torre de Moncorvo one of the richest in the region.
Location: Torre de Moncorvo
