Luri | |
Commune Status: | Commune |
Arrondissement: | Bastia |
Canton: | Cap Corse |
Insee: | 2B152 |
Postal Code: | 20228 |
Mayor: | Anne-Laure Santucci[1] |
Term: | 2020 - 2026 |
Intercommunality: | Cap Corse |
Coordinates: | 42.8833°N 9.4667°W |
Elevation M: | 600 |
Elevation Min M: | 0 |
Elevation Max M: | 1136 |
Area Km2: | 27.53 |
Luri is a commune of the Haute-Corse department of France on the island of Corsica.
Luri is in the north of the Cap Corse peninsula.It is crossed from west to east by the Luri, a stream that empties into the Tyrrhenian Sea.Villages include Spergane, Luri, Campo and Santa Severa.
Luri has been tentatively identified as the Lurinum of Ptolemy[2] both by similarity of name and because of Castellu di Luri, a Roman-style fortification occupied from the third century BC to the 1st century AD.[3] It was in the territory of Ptolemy's tribe, Vanacini, who according to a bronze inscription recording a letter from the emperor Vespasian, had their own senate and magistrates and were therefore probably semi-autonomous.[4] They may have occupied the fort themselves.