Map of San Gregorio Matese

The new route reaches the village during Twenties

The ancient church of S. Maria delle Grazie

San Gregorio Matese with the bell tower of the mother church.

Meanwhile the country had taken its shape: . The below street, "curzu re sotta", ") today is the Gaetano Del Giudice street and the above street "curzu re coppa", is the Redentore street with the maze of alleys that connect them. These are named for the families that inhabited them, like "Cola Caso" lane, "Tomasone" street and "Alesio Ciccarelli" neighborhoods, or with names that have disappeared today, Rizadri, Babione, Carcasini, Autera and Trave.

S.Gregorio, like all of the villages of the area, was a part of Piedimonte town in whose Municipality it was represented by Castello village. The parish was situated in Castello from which it depended, being on it's own since 1596.

At the beginning of the 1700s, the church of San Gregorio fell. Since then the Holy does not have more one, also because there was the new Mother Church that possessed land and sheep, and the church of the Congrega, where the graves of the rich were located.

In the second half of 1700 the social people turned to the country. There were the brothers Valenzio and Gaetano Del Giudice, doctor and druggist. There was the Caso of Fontana family with the brothers Vincenzo, Mariano and Giovanni, all land owners, and the Caso of Calcarella family, with the landowner Don Vincenzo and the doctor Raffaele. The successive divisions of the estates between the many sons and grandsons in the new generations had already decreased the wealth of the ancient Spanish Mezzullo family.

July of 1748 is an historical date: the countryseat of San Gregorio had obtained its autonomy from Piedimonte and wrote its first Catasto Onciario.

In 1793 a devout girl, Maddalena Caso, 19 years old had died. Her body, exhibited in the church, miraculously raised its arm to greet those present. The Bishop of Alife arrived then to verify the supernatural event. The Blessed Maddalena was buried in the bell tower. Since then her ghost, who is good, frightens all of the children that ascend too near to the bells.
Meanwhile the Town Hall was organized, the actions of the civil state began.