After the victory, Felipe the 5th decreed the New Planta, or the abolition of the Valencian jurisdictions and its adjustment to the Kingdom and its capital to laws and habits of Castile. The municipal government suffered a deep transformation and the posts ceased to be elective to go under the direct designation of the monarch, corruptible and hereditary.

Since the beginning of the bourbon stage, Valencia had to get used to the presence of troops. In order to confine them to barracks and also to grant the order of the city, The Citadel was built next to the Santo Domingo Convent, a fortification with two bastions at the outer space and a heavy tower. Besides, different buildings were used to house the troops such as The Lonja that served as a barrack until 1762.

In the economic field, during the Eighteenth Century, Valencia experienced a recovery stage supported by the manufacturing of silk fabrics and other industrial activities, such as tiling.

According to the time’s sources, silk gave work in a direct or indirect way to more than 25 000 persons and formed the physiognomy of a whole neighbourhood, the Velluters, besides greatly influencing the huerta’s landscape with its roads full of the white mulberry trees and its farmsteads of high two roads of bricks for the raising of the worm.

The College of Senior Art for the Silk was the one in charge of regulating one profession, the one of velluter, each time far beyond from the guild scenario. Due to the deficiencies of the port facilities, the production was sent by road to Cadiz, from whose port it was redistributed, enjoying from a special acceptance in the American market.

The Eighteenth Century was the century of ideas, the Century of Lights. The illustrate thinking born in France found a fervent echo in Valencia and counted with names of recognized European prestige such as  Gregorio Mayans or Pérez Bayer, who shared a mail with the most outstanding French or German thinkers of the moment. In the field of musical production, the composers Cabanilles and Martí & Soler were remarkable. In this exhilarating environment of ideas, the Economic Society of Friends of the Country materializes, which is in fact the introducer of countless improvements in the agricultural and industrial production and promoter of diverse economic, civic and cultural institutions.