Home to some famous factories, including Amaro Lucano ... #tuttitaly
Pisticci is also named "The Balcony On The Ionian." You can see different views around the village, which will entrance you.
The panorama - which overlooks the Ionian Sea - bounces on the beautiful surrounding hills and its particular clay gullies and is set in a truly unique landscape and cultural context.
The village is near Matera, located between the mountains and the sea.
The white houses lined up in the Dirupo district "connected like the wagons of a train running in a wide curve" (Cit. Archaeologist Prof. Dinu Adamesteanu), frame the famous Calanchi that all around show long furrows in the rock and strange overhanging hills, witnesses of the fragility of the surrounding soil which, being clayey, is eroded and crossed by rivers and streams.
I recommend visiting the village and discovering each district. It is the districts here that tell the story of the place:
- The Dirupo district, with its houses all lined up and clinging to the gullies below, was created to protest against a profiting count. The story began in 1688, when, due to the umpteenth landslide that punctually destroyed the town, Count De Cardenas decided to move the houses to another land, always belonging to him. In doing so, however, the Count would have forced the inhabitants to pay more taxes.
Therefore the people decided to refuse and persevere, building about 200 houses right where the land had collapsed, giving life to the Dirupo district.
- The Marconia district, on the other hand, was born thanks to the anti-fascist prisoners who, by reclaiming the surrounding marshes, gave life to the prosperous hamlet of Marconia.
Not far from Pisticci is the National Archaeological Museum of Metaponto, another place to visit.
