The Municipal Historical Archives of Chieri conserve the most ancient documents of the town. The oldest document dates back to 1194 and is an alliance treaty with the town of Asti. The documents are very varied. There are the minutes of the council (from 1328), accountancy registers, taxation books and registers of military conscripts. The oldest series are the registers of landed property dating back to 1253. A few hundred types of drawings and maps cover the period from 1730 to 1950 approximately. There is also a rare medieval map, the so-called “Map of the Hanged Man”, from 1457. Also of note are the archives of the “Academia degli Irrequieti” (the Academy of the Restless) and the registers of married couples. Finally there are two bodies of very significant documents: the archive of the “Ospedale Maggiore”, the general hospital, (1383-1982) and the Archives of “Ospizio di Carità”– a charity hospice (1316-1975). From 2003 this archive is dedicated to the memory of Filippo Ghirardi (1918-2002).
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Chieri Landscapes
The Local History section in the Public Library The concept of landscape was created in Italy, a harmonious fusion of nature and culture. Chieri also possesses a large capital of beauty and natural biodiversity, some Leggi tutto…