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Pisticci (Metapontino: Pestìzze; Latin: Pesticium) is a town comune in the province of Matera, in the Southern Italian region of Basilicata.
Pisticci is the fourth most populous town in the region and the most populous in the province after Matera. It is known for being the production site of Amaro Lucano, one of the most famous Italian liqueurs.
Saints Peter and Paul Mother Church
The church stands on the site of an early church which dated from 1212, retaining its bell tower and two of its stained glass windows. In 1542 it was expanded by the addition of two extra aisles, constructed by Pietro and Antonio Laviola, two brothers who were later accused of murder in Mantua.
The church is in the Romanesque-Renaissance style, with an angled roof, and is built in the shape of a Latin cross, with three aisles. On the left and right there are small chapels, under which there are buried local important people. Each chapel has a statue by the sculptor Salvatore Sacquegna. The interior walls of the church are decorated with 18th-century pictures painted by Domenico Guarino, among which Our Lady of Mount Carmel, the Madonna del Pozzo, and the Mysteries of the Rosary are especially notable.
History
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^Capogreco, Carlo Spartaco (2019). Mussolini's camps: civilian internment in fascist Italy (1940-1943). London New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. p. 18. ISBN978-1138333086.
^Lewis, Damien (26 Oct 2023). SAS Forged in Hell. Quercus. ISBN978-1529413823. On 13 September it set forth, steaming west into 'enemy country', making for a concentration camp that was crammed full of prisoners, a number of whom were Polish. Just as in Nazi Germany, a network of such camps had been strung across Fascist Italy, where the 'enemies of the state' were incarcerated amid inhuman conditions. Situated some eighty kilometres inside German-occupied territory and boasting a guard force commanded by an 'Italian Fascist Colonel', the camp at distant Pisticci was the train's planned destination - that was if it made it through. As the war-train had gathered pace and steamed westwards, at one of the key crossroads Major Cary-Elwes stood guard with a patrol of SAS jeeps, determined to hold the junction and adjacent railway crossing against all adversaries. In that he had succeeded, the special train steaming through unmolested. On 14 September it reached the Pisticci camp unscathed. Upon arrival the SAS had struck by surprise, bursting out of the train and overpowering the camp guards, before springing free 180 'prisoners of mixed nationalities'.
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