Turi, Apulia Explained

Turi
Official Name:Comune di Turi
Pushpin Label Position:bottom
Coordinates:40.9667°N 24°W
Metropolitan City:Bari (BA)
Mayor:Giuseppe De Tomaso
Area Total Km2:70
Population Footnotes:[1]
Population Total:11881
Population As Of:December 31, 2004
Population Demonym:Turesi
Elevation M:254
Saint:Sant'Oronzo
Day:August 26
Postal Code:70010
Area Code:080

Turi (Turese: Neapolitan: Ture in Neapolitan pronounced as /ˈtuːrə/; Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: Θυριαι|translit=Thuriai) is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Bari and region of Apulia, southern Italy. With a population approaching 12,000, it lies a few miles inland from the town of Polignano A Mare on the Adriatic Sea.

The Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci, imprisoned by Benito Mussolini's Fascist regime for eleven years (1926-1937), served most of his sentence in Turi, and died shortly after he was released.

Notes and References

  1. Population from ISTAT