During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, under the reign of the Bourbon dynasty, the rituals of exaltation of the new monarchs continued to be carried out as in previous centuries in all the territories of the monarchy. In them, the city had a great role in the routes that the parades made through its streets. But many of them were forced to hide their facades or to pretend buildings of an artistic modernity that did not exist. This text analyzes through the study of several cases in several cities of the Spanish monarchy where for various reasons these curtains were used to hide their economic and urban poverty.