Tursi

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

In Tursi 5147 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012). The town is located 69 km south of Matera. The lowest point of the municipality is 15 m, the highest at 646 m. Districts are Anglona, Capra Rico, Capra Rico Sotto, Filici, Gannano, Ginnari, Monte, Panevino and Trafana. The neighboring municipalities are Colobraro, Montalbano Jonico, Policoro, Rotondella, Sant'Arcangelo (PZ ), Scanzano Jonico and Stigliano. Tursi is a member of the Comunità Montana Basso Sinni, their management in the municipality is located.

The beginnings of Tursi are unclear. After the destruction of Anglona by the Goths whose inhabitants are said to have settled on the hill of Tursi. Around the middle of the 9th century it was conquered by the Saracens un the place have given the name Rabatana. Shortly after the reconquest of 900 followed by the Byzantines, which led to a further boost to the settlement. Under the Normans were dependent Tursi and Anglona of Montescaglioso. From the second half of the 14th to the 16th century, the feud was in the hands of Sanseverino, 1572, it acquired the Doria, which it occupied until 1806. Carlo Doria, Duke of Tursi, named his residence in Genoa to this property as Palazzo Doria Tursi -.

Some 10 km to the east of the Diocese of Tursi - Anglona the former cathedral located in the contrada Anglona: Santa Maria di Anglona. The origins of the building are in the late 11th century. Although the settlement Anglona was already in the 15th century to the deserted village, has only 1544 Paul III. transferred the seat of the diocese to Tursi.