The King, enlightened by the study of Gaetano Filangieri and Bernardo Tanucci, had the idea of transforming the old baronial cottage into a silk factory. Architect Francesco Collecini, a pupil and a collaborator of Luigi Vanvitelli, was chosen for the transformation. The King decided to open the doors of his mansion on the hill, to welcome silk artisans, thus starting a new life together: the elegant royal rooms on one side, the rooms with the noisy machinery for silk manufacture on the other. The ballroom was replaced by the Church for the community and the public school, the labour houses, the rooms for silk-reeling, spinning, dyeing were set around the building.
Ferdinandopolis was born, the utopia of an ideal town where it was possible to implement social reforms, introducing silk manufacture.