City Archive

A place for the memory of the city

Built next to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the building served as an archive of the city's writings in the sixteenth century, as certified by an inscription from 1567 placed on the architrave window .

The papers, however, were kept inside the church of the Holy Sepulcher already at the end of the fifteenth century, when King Ferrante of Aragon ordered their conservation. In 1521, however, an archive of writings was recorded in the Captain's House.

Evidently the sixteenth-century building, commissioned by the Universitas, whose coat of arms stands out on the exterior, ended up incorporating both funds in a single place, evidence of the care for the preservation of the written memory of the city during the Renaissance.

The function of the building remained the same for a long time, as confirmed by an inscription from 1784.