Reial Acadèmia de Bones Lletres de Barcelona

As an acknowledgement for the support that the city of Cervera had given him during the Spanish War of Succession, Philip V concentrated all Catalan universities in one.

In 1752 the Reial Acadèmia de Bones Lletres got the title of royal academy, which was bestowed by Ferdinand VI.

As in other royal academies, the work of the Reial Acadèmia de Bones Lletres was limited to a specific field, in this case language and literature.

[2] During the three years of the Trienio Liberal, when there was a higher degree of political freedom, which lasted from 1820 until 1823 with the French invasion of Spain, new members with new ideas came to the Academy, such as Bonaventura Carles Aribau.

Nonetheless in 1841 and 1857 it held two poetry contests, that are usually considered as the first steps towards the beginning of the Floral Games in Catalan in 1859.