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Tarragona Port Archive has at hand an ambitious, titled project intended to make the most important and consulted documentary series in digital format available to researchers, thus favouring the dissemination of its collection and studies surrounding the Port of Tarragona.

So far the series that can be found online are the books of the Port of Tarragona Works Committee from 1869 to 1962 (both those of the Committee’s Plenary Sessions and those of the Executive-Permanent Commission), the record of arrivals and departures of vessels from 1874 to 1976, a book of the Castellarnau Fund’s accounts, the work projects from 1868 until 1922, the Customs books of the Port of Tarragona’s Protective Works Committee from 1799 to 1836 and the certificates and deliveries from 1790 to 1820, also pertaining to the Port of Tarragona Works Committee Fund.

Digital Archive

You can access the directory of minutes, annual reports, the accounts book of Josep de Castellarnau, the historical record of vessels, historical construction projects and customs books.

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About the Archive

Sources of Documents

In this section you will find which sources of documents you have at your disposal. In the majority of them you have access to download the inventory of the units which make them up.

Digital Archive

Tarragona Port Archive has at hand an ambitious, titled project intended to make the most important and consulted documentary series in digital format available to researchers

Photo-Library

With more than 10,000 registered and digitized photographs, the Images Collection of the Port Archive Port continues to have a significant volume of consultations.

Dissemination

From the Port Archive we have organized different kinds of events and activities with the aim of publicizing our Centre and our collections.

Award for research

To promote and encourage research efforts since 2004 the Port of Tarragona Research Prize is called, which is worth 6,000 Euros.

Educational Archive

The aim of informing higher and lower secondary students the important task which will be carried out at the Archive and Museum to preserve and disseminate

Library / Archive

Besides the collections of documents themselves, the Port Archive also provides an important additional library of about 9,000 volumes, mainly based on port and maritime themes