Pisticci rises in the central-southern part of the province of Matera and extends between the rivers Basento, and Cavone.  The territory is composed of several hamlets and villages, including Marconia, Pisticci Scalo and Marina di Pisticci.

The hills on which stands the old town are located in the west, where the clay soil is characterized by deep grooves, the badlands. In the eastern part of the territory, however, there is a plateau that slopes gently towards the Metaponto plain and the 8 km of coast. Given its strategic position is called the balcony on the Ionian Sea.

At present a scarcity of sources does not allow to build a history of Pisticci in high feudalism. The fief of Pisticci in the sixteenth century passed into the hands of several powerful families. For the Sanseverino rebellion the fief passed to the king for a few years. But the danger of a Turkish invasion on the Ionian coast advised the Royal Court to sell in 1553 to the Count of Seminara Pietro Antonio Spinello all the fief of Pisticcese. Four years later, he sold the land of Pisticci to Baron D'Acquara Pietro Antonio Comite.

In 1593 the fief of Pisticci passed under the Cardenas who, like other lords, lived for most of the time in the capital, spending only a few months a year in Pisticci land. The terrible plague of 1656 spared Pisticci who, for this fortuitous fate, hosted the Cardenas family until 1657. With the abolition of feudalism all that belonged to the fief of the Cardenas was sold to the enchantment. Between 1810 and 1815, families such as the Franks, the Rogges, the Latronico, the Viggiani, the Minnoia, the Barbalinardo, the D'Ursi, the Gaeta emerged on the Pisticci scene. In a second time (30/40 years later) other families reached prosperity thanks to the cunning with which they managed to redeem many lands. The brigandage of the period 1861-1870 spared Pisticci and grazed only the campaigns of the pisticcese. Between 1930 and 1940 several pisticcesi left the country to find fortune abroad especially in North America, France and Germany and in South American countries.