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.