Pisciotta

The territory of Pisciotta falls entirely within the National Park of Cilento and Vallo di Diano. Pisciotta's natural beauty and climate represent its great wealth.
The town preserves, almost unchanged, its typically medieval urban structure, with a castle located on the top and several houses leaning against each other around it.
Its origins date back, most likely, to the year 900, when some inhabitants of ancient Pixus, which was completely destroyed by the Saracens, took refuge in this territory and founded Pixoctum: hence the name of the Municipality.
In the 12th century Pisciotta became a fief of the Caracciolo family, of the Sanseverinos and, later, of the Pappacodas.
In the years between 1635 and 1639 the Bishop Luigi Pappacoda transferred the Episcopal see in Pisciotta. In the same century the town suffered from several attacks by various populations, particularly those of pirates, among which worth a mention is the famous “Fra Diavolo”.
Pisciotta’s coastline is 10 km long and features various kinds of beaches, and the most loved by tourists are, from north to south, Fiumicello and Acquabianca, with their "agliaredde": wide and round pebbles, smoothed by the sea. On the bottom of the sea, beautiful plants of Poseidonia grow sponateously, witnessing the purity of Pisciotta’s water.

The territory of Pisciotta falls entirely within the National Park of Cilento and Vallo di Diano. Pisciotta's natural beauty and climate represent its great wealth.
The town preserves, almost unchanged, its typically medieval urban structure, with a castle located on the top and several houses leaning against each other around it.
Its origins date back, most likely, to the year 900, when some inhabitants of ancient Pixus, which was completely destroyed by the Saracens, took refuge in this territory and founded Pixoctum: hence the name of the Municipality.
In the 12th century Pisciotta became a fief of the Caracciolo family, of the Sanseverinos and, later, of the Pappacodas.
In the years between 1635 and 1639 the Bishop Luigi Pappacoda transferred the Episcopal see in Pisciotta. In the same century the town suffered from several attacks by various populations, particularly those of pirates, among which worth a mention is the famous “Fra Diavolo”.
Pisciotta’s coastline is 10 km long and features various kinds of beaches, and the most loved by tourists are, from north to south, Fiumicello and Acquabianca, with their "agliaredde": wide and round pebbles, smoothed by the sea. On the bottom of the sea, beautiful plants of Poseidonia grow sponateously, witnessing the purity of Pisciotta’s water.