Pisticci.
The town is situated in the River Basento Valley,
in an area characterised by deep clayey ravines.
The town was called ‘Pesticium’ in
the Roman time and became a feud in the Norman time.
The church of SS. Pietro e Paolo (1542), in the
‘rione Torrevecchia’, is worth visiting.
Inside there are engraved wooden altars and XVIII
century paintings and some interesting canvases
by the Neapolitan school.
The XII century church of Santa Maria del Casale,
with a XIV century portal and a XVI century rose
window, is very beautiful and so is the church of
Sant'Antonio, containing XVII century and XVIII
century frescoes and several canvases, among which
those by Giovanni Tommaso Guarini and Andrea Vaccaro.
In San Basilio, there is a fortified farm; built
as a castle by Ruggero the Norman and subsequently
turned into an abbey by the Basil monks, it was
made into a farm by the Berlingieri family.
