The Palácio Ficalho holds an archive that provides the history of the house and the family from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the twentieth century. It is a crucial asset in understanding the socio-economic context and the history of the elites in this region of Portugal.

If you are a researcher and wish to consult this family archive, please contact us.

In 1817, this collection was organised, and the “General and Alphabetical Index of the Archive of the Most Illustrious and Most Excellent House of Ficalho” which was recently made available online as part of the INVENT.ARQ project – Inventories of family archives, 15th–19th centuries. Rethinking the pre-modern archive, by NOVAFCSH.