Key facts
- Country
- Italy
- Region
- Apulia
- Metropolitan city
- Bari (BA)
- Mayor
- Giuseppe De Tomaso
- Total
- 70 km (27 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 254 m (833 ft)
- Density
- 170/km (440/sq mi)
- Demonym
- Turesi
- Time zone
- UTC+1 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+2 ( CEST )
- Dialing code
- 080
- Patron saint
- Sant'Oronzo
- Saint day
- August 26
- Website
- Official website
via Wikipedia infobox
Article
Turi (Turese: Ture [ˈtuːrə]; Ancient Greek: Θυριαι, romanized: 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.