From the Cutting Room Floor 2018-195
The village of Tursi is a medieval center of the V century approximately, in Basilicata. Born originally around the castle and subsequently developed into the valley below assuming a singular elongated shape. The inhabited center is divided for the most part by the torrent Pescogrosso, which takes its name from the huge boulders found along its course and opens as tributary in the river Sinni. There are several sources that seek to explain the derivation of the word "Tursi". The most accredited say it comes from the name of the person, "Turcico", a man of arms of Byzantine origins, owner of the area, which expanded toward the valley the ancient borgo Saraceno, "Rabatana", giving the new zone name Tursikon Tursicon or. The Rabatana was the first inhabited nucleus of Tursi, and is literally surrounded on each side by deep and inaccessible gullies. Around the half of the V century the Goths built the castle, around which rose the first stone houses and constituted the nucleus of primordial Tursi, which grew after the depopulation of Anglona (now fraction of Tursi).
From the Cutting Room Floor 2018-195
The village of Tursi is a medieval center of the V century approximately, in Basilicata. Born originally around the castle and subsequently developed into the valley below assuming a singular elongated shape. The inhabited center is divided for the most part by the torrent Pescogrosso, which takes its name from the huge boulders found along its course and opens as tributary in the river Sinni. There are several sources that seek to explain the derivation of the word "Tursi". The most accredited say it comes from the name of the person, "Turcico", a man of arms of Byzantine origins, owner of the area, which expanded toward the valley the ancient borgo Saraceno, "Rabatana", giving the new zone name Tursikon Tursicon or. The Rabatana was the first inhabited nucleus of Tursi, and is literally surrounded on each side by deep and inaccessible gullies. Around the half of the V century the Goths built the castle, around which rose the first stone houses and constituted the nucleus of primordial Tursi, which grew after the depopulation of Anglona (now fraction of Tursi).