The history of Turi can be read in its stones, in the streets that shape its urban fabric, and in the architecture that, over the centuries, has defined its identity. The town’s urban development revolves around the Castle of Turi , the original centre of civil and military life, from which the first inhabited nucleus took shape. Built before the year 1000, probably during the Byzantine or Norman period, the castle began as a watchtower surrounded by a defensive wall. Its pos

Wandering through the narrow, winding streets of Turi’s historic centre, one can still sense the essence of a distant past, filled with scents, sounds, and echoes of life in a small community newly freed from Norman rule. Walking among quiet alleys and stone courtyards, it almost feels possible to hear the voices and footsteps of the peasants of old, until you reach a building that quietly dominates the heart of the town. There are no symbols of power here: the houses seem to