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After Italy was united, there was resistance and insurrection, as evidenced by inscriptions discovered in the Majella mountains.
In the mountains of the Maiella massif, very rare inscriptions from the second half of the 19th century provide an insight into the lives of the famous briganti—bandits and highwaymen that resisted Italian troops after unification in 1861. Names, dates, and symbols are written all over an area densely covered in flat calcareous rocks high in the Apennines, at over 6,500 feet above sea level. They were written by bands of rebels, robbers, and outlaws following the conquest of the southern Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, leading to a unified Italian kingdom. The widespread brigantaggio movement opposed integration into a young nation and demanded social and economic changes with tactics like Robin Hood-style robbery and guerrilla violence.
