Demonym(s) Turesi Area 70 km² Local time Sunday 8:34 PM Postal code 70010 | Elevation 254 m (833 ft) Time zone CET (UTC+1) Province Province of Bari Patron saint Orontius of Lecce Dialling code 080 | |
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Weather 12°C, Wind N at 18 km/h, 81% Humidity | ||
Turi is a town and comune in the province 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.
Map of 70010 Turi Metropolitan City of Bari, Italy
The Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci, imprisoned by Benito Mussolini's Fascist regime for eleven years (1926-1937), served most his sentence in Turi, and died shortly after he was released.
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