The National Archives of Spain is a national system of Archives and State Centers maintained by the Archive (Archivo) department of the Spanish Ministry of Culture.

The National Archives of Spain consists of a number of different collections.

The General Administrative Archives, Alcala de Henares, is a repository for the records of the ministries of the central administration, created in 1969 as a replacement for the Central Archive, which was destroyed in a fire in 1939.

[1] Other Archives and Centers include: The "Portal de Archivos Españoles" (PARES), is the open access database for the digitized records of the various collections within the National Archives.

[3] This project is run in conjunction by the Ministry of Culture and Sport and the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training.