Basilicate, Italy · Europe
Tursi is worth a stop: 15 minutes from Colobraro, 15km from Craco.
Tursi is a town located in Basilicate, Italy. With a population of 4,377, it is an important destination in Europe.
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Tursi (Turse in Tursitano dialect; Ancient Greek: Θυρσοί, romanized: Thursoí; Latin: Tursium) is an Italian comune of 4,712 inhabitants in the province of Matera in Basilicata, elevated to a city by decree of the President of the Republic Carlo Azeglio Ciampi on May 4, 2006. The municipality is home to the Basso SinniRead more
mountain community.
The urban center began to develop in the 5th century around the castle, in 1561 it was among the most populous, and in 1601 it was the city in the province of the kingdom with the largest number of fires, numbering 1799, ahead of Melfi (1772), Venosa (1095), Potenza (1082) and Tricarico (1073).
In 968, in Byzantine times, Tursi became the capital of the theme of Lucania, and an episcopal see of the Greek rite. From the beginning of the 18th century and until the Bourbon reform of 1816 (except in 1799, when it was annexed to the department of Crati, i.e., Cosentian Calabria), Tursi was the first of the four subdivisions of the then province of Basilicata, the Royal Collector of Basilicata was based there, and its boundaries, which extended to the Ionian Sea, included the tower of Trisaja, south of the mouth of the Sinni River, one of the seven coastal towers of the Kingdom of Naples protecting the Ionian coast of Basilicata.
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Tursi is located in Basilicate, Italy, Europe. The coordinates are 40.2465 latitude, 16.4714 longitude.
Tursi has a population of approximately 4,377 people, making it a town in Italy.
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ACI roadside assistance: 803 116. ZTL (limited traffic zones) in city centres are camera-enforced.
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ancient ruins
Ghost town abandoned in 1963 after a landslide, its Norman tower and gutted palazzi still crowning a clay ridge above the Basento badlands. Visitable on guided hard-hat tours; a favourite film set from The Passion of the Christ to 007.
15 km · about 30 min drive
ancient ruins
Two ancient cave-dwelling districts carved into the ravine of Matera, inhabited since the Paleolithic and now a UNESCO site.
48 km · about 55 min drive
landmark
An ancient city in Basilicata carved into limestone gorges, with cave dwellings (Sassi) continuously inhabited for over 9,000 years.
48 km · about 55 min drive
landmark
Village wedged into the jagged sandstone spires of the Dolomiti Lucane, linked to neighbouring Pietrapertosa by the Volo dell'Angelo zipline that flies 120 km/h across the gorge. The SP13 approach through the rock gateway is unforgettable.
48 km · about 55 min drive
April to October
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