With the Restoration, a new aristocracy continues as the rich person shows it remains of the baron de Chartrouse, mayor of Arles, which undertakes in 1824 the release of the arenas and gives in value the ancient built inheritance. Harbor old city, Arles loses its monopoly of navigation on the Low-Rhone, with the arrival of the railroad in the middle of the century. But the city finds a second breath in industry with in particular the railway workshops and naval construction.

The rural population, which constituted 40% more of the townsmen around 1850, leaves the city. In less than a half century Arles becomes a working city. Town planning is deeply modified by it with the appearance of new districts, and fixed bridges on the Rhone. The urban screen opens with adjustments of circulation and walk: boulevards, gardens.

Severely touched by the bombardments of the Second world war, Arles knows one period of rebuilding and grows rich by new equipment. With the loss of many industrial employment in the years 1980, the city reorientates its economy. Inheritance, tourism and culture hold a broad place to with it.