Silk worm hatchery

Between the 14th and 19th centuries silkworm breeding was an important complementary activity for farming families. This temporary, intensive activity, between the months of March and May, provided complementary income to families. At the end of the 19th century, a pebrina epidemic and the lack of modernization of the Valencian silk sector caused a slow and gradual crisis which experienced its last death throes in the mid-20th century.