Tursi

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Tursi
coat of arms
Tursi (Italy)
Tursi
Country Italy
region Basilicata
province Matera  (MT)
Coordinates 40 ° 15 '  N , 16 ° 28'  E Coordinates: 40 ° 14 '50 "  N , 16 ° 28' 13"  E
height 243  m slm
surface 156 km²
Residents 4,901 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density 31 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 75028
prefix 0835
ISTAT number 077029
Popular name Tursitani
Patron saint San Filippo Neri (May 26)
Website Tursi
Panorama of Tursi
Panorama of Tursi

Tursi is a municipality on the southern border of the province of Matera in the Italian region of Basilicata .

Location and dates

4901 inhabitants live in Tursi (as of December 31, 2019). The place is 69 km south of Matera . The lowest point of the municipality is 15 m, the highest at 646 m. Districts are Anglona, ​​Caprarico, Caprarico Sotto, Filici, Gannano, Ginnari, Monte, Panevino and Trafana.

The neighboring communities are Colobraro , Montalbano Jonico , Policoro , Rotondella , Sant'Arcangelo ( PZ ), Scanzano Jonico and Stigliano . Tursi is a member of the Comunità Montana Basso Sinni , whose administration is located in the municipality.

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Panoramic picture of Tursi

history

The beginnings of Tursi are unclear. After Anglona was destroyed by the Goths , its inhabitants are said to have settled on the heights of Tursi. Around the middle of the 9th century , the place was conquered by the Saracens , who gave the place the name Rabatana. Shortly after 900 came the reconquest by the Byzantines, which led to a further boom in the settlement. Under the Normans, Tursi and Anglona were dependent on Montescaglioso . From the second half of the 14th to the 16th century the fiefdom was in the hands of the Sanseverino , in 1572 it was acquired by the Doria , who held it until 1806. Carlo Doria , Duke of Tursi, named his residence in Genoa after this property as Palazzo Doria-Tursi .

Attractions

  • Cattedrale dell'Annunziata in the city center in Piazza Maria Santissima di Anglona
  • Chiesa di San Filippo Neri in Piazza Plebiscito in the district of San Filippo
  • Chiesa Santa Maria Maggiore in Rabatana
  • Santa Maria di Anglona , the former cathedral of the Anglona-Tursi diocese in the contrada Anglona, ​​is just 10 km to the east. The construction began at the end of the 11th century. Although the settlement of Anglona was deserted in the 15th century, it was not until 1544 that Paul III. the seat of the diocese moved to Tursi.

  • View of the old town Rabatana

  • Tursi Cathedral

  • Chiesa Santa Maria Maggiore

  • The basilica in Anglona

  • Convento di San Francesco d'Assisi

literature

  • Azienda di promozione turistica - Basilicata, Matera e Provincia

Web links

Commons : Tursi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
  2. ↑ Historical information on Tursi at the Sistema Informativo Unificato per le Soprintendenze Archivistiche (SIUSA)
  3. ^ Walther Holtzmann , Italia Pontificia IX: Samnium - Apulia - Lucania . Berlin 1962, p. 468