On February 20, 1852
Leopoldo II, Grand Duke of Tuscany, issued a decree formally founding the
Archivio di Stato di Firenze.
The archive holds over 600 fonds dating back to the 8th century which, laid out in a line, would stretch over 75 km (46 miles).
[1]"Until 1989, the archive was located in the
Uffizi. On November 4th, 1966 the River Arno flooded, causing damage to over 60,000 pieces of archival material.
[2] The flood incited the decision to construct a modern building for the archives further from the River Arno. The new building, designed by Italo Gamberini and his team of architects, was begun in 1974.
[3] It included a space for the restoration laboratory, which was founded shortly after the 1966 to recover damaged documents.
[4] Between 1987-1988 archival materials were transferred from the Uffizi to their current location, on the Viale della Giovine Italia, near the
Piazza Beccaria in Florence" (Wikipedia article on Archivio di Stato di Firenze, accessed 1-2021).
