Between the late nineteenth and the early twentieth century a mass emigration took much of Brienza to the Americas. In Buenos Aires the brienzani settled in Mataderos, the barrio everyone also calls Nueva Chicago, while others went to Chicago itself; the Asociación Italiana Brienza still holds that community together.
The Caracciolo castle sits on a spur dropping sheer to the Pergola and commands the Melandro valley: a Norman core, enlarged by the Angevins and reworked by the Caracciolo. Here, on 8 December 1748, Mario Pagano was born, a jurist and one of the leaders of the Neapolitan Republic: he was hanged in Naples in 1799. There are 4,082 residents.
Castello Caracciolo · Santuario del Santissimo Crocifisso · chiesa di Santa Maria Assunta and 2 more
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📅 Every year, on 10 May, the first Sunday of May, and the third of September
Brienza celebrates Saint Cataldus on 10 May, the Holy Crucifix on the first Sunday of May, and Our Lady of Sorrows on the third Sunday of September, when the Crucifix returns to town after three months in its mountain sanctuary.
Castello Caracciolo The marquises' rooms on the third floor, the prison inside the round tower. 
Santuario del Santissimo Crocifisso The crucifix stays on Monte Sacrato, at 1100 metres, from May to September. 
chiesa di Santa Maria Assunta A three-nave crypt below the parish church, two Peccheneda canvases above. 
chiesa di San Martino A perimeter of walls is all that is left of Brienza's oldest church, above the river. 
monumento a Francesco Mario Pagano A bronze by Achille D'Orsi, unveiled in 1890, ninety-one years after Pagano was hanged in Naples. Straight-line distances from the town centre. Tap a point to open its page.
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