About us
We protect and enhance the cultural heritage of Brienza
Brienza 1799 was established in Brienza on 25 November 2023
Founding members are Cataldo C. Collazzo, Michele Collazzo, Alfonso Conte,
Don Marcello Cozzi, Maria Antonietta of Nazareth, Valentina Di Gruccio,
Aurora Distefano, Giovanni Ferrarese, Francesco Pagano and Antonio Pepe
The association is a non-profit organization and has as its primary objective to intervene for protecting and enhancing the cultural heritage and landscape, both on tangible and intangible assets, falling exclusively within the territory of BRIENZA, pursuant to Legislative Decree 22 January 2004, no. 42. According to the purpose, and compatibly with the funds, the Association organizes and manages cultural, artistic or recreational activities of social interest, including editorial ones, for the promotion and dissemination of culture. The Association, in accordance with the provision of art. 4 of Legislative Decree no. 117/2017, carries out the activities of general interest identified above with a grant-making, mutualistic and economic method, according to the determinations of the Board of Directors. The statute establishes in particular that membership is free, that it operates democratically, that the social positions are elective and that any profit-making purpose is absolutely prohibited. The activities, the functioning of the social bodies and the other rules that regulate the life of the Association are established by the Statute, approved unanimously by the founding members.
The logo of Brienza 1799
was made by
Antonio Salviulo
Our story
The association was established in November 2023 on the initiative of Cataldo C. Collazzo who, with a letter of March 2023, proposed to the City Council of Brienza to make of a fund having a bonded destination for the protection and enhancement of the cultural heritage of Brienza, both tangible and intangible. The fund is currently supported only by the contribution that the same Cataldo C. Collazzo has undertaken to pay annually and set at the sum of €15,000.00. The fund should have, upon adhesion to the proposal thus formulated to the Municipality of Brienza, also been fed by an annual sum of the same amount paid to the Association as a contribution of the Municipal Administration, or in the amount of an annual sum not less than €5,000.00 and in any case not more than €15,000.00, in the forms and with the methods that the same Administration should establish, through the co-financing of specific projects approved by the Board of Directors. At present, however, the civic administration has not yet adhered.
The Statute of the association also provides for the membership of other public or private entities which undertake to contribute to the Fund and for the entire duration of the association, as a voluntary contribution, an annual sum of not less than 5,000 euros and in any case not more than 15,000.00 euros per year.
To achieve its goals, the Association allocates the proceeds of the Fund in a minimum amount of 75% to long-term interventions aimed at protecting and enhancing the cultural heritage and landscape on tangible and intangible assets and in a maximum amount of 25% for the organization and management of cultural, artistic or recreational activities of social interest, including editorial ones, for the promotion and diffusion of culture.