Tursi 1
We arrived in Tursi with stormy skies the fading light and a rather hair raising adventure to make our way from the newer part of the city to the bottom of the oldest part to reach our flat in a historic before cars location for the evening. Making our way around the building and its neighborhood before climbing the hill for our supper in our walkabout we captured this homestead built between the old and new parts of Tursi to me it seemed like an observer of a lot of Tursi’s history and had probably seen better days itself.
Tursi is one of the oldest towns in Basilicata, it was founded by the Enotri peoples before 1000 BC then called Pandosia conquered and occupied as a Greek colony 400 years later lthen completely destroyed by the Romans during the Social War of the 1rst century BC . People apparently liked living in this area because the Roman city Anglona soon arose on the ruins finding itself destroyed by the VisiGoths after the fall of the Empire in 410AD.
The Visigoth’s tried to establish a stronghold here with a castle at the top of the hill but were drove out and soon a Saracen outpost was founded and stayed in place until the Byzantines took control in the 9th century when Tursi got its new name Tursikon.
I took this on Oct 3rd, 2018 with my D750 and Nikon 16-35mm f4.0 Lens at 26mm 2s f`16 ISO 100 processed in LR, PS +Lumenzia, Topaz , and DXO
Disclaimer: My style is a study of romantic realism as well as a work in progress
Tursi 1
We arrived in Tursi with stormy skies the fading light and a rather hair raising adventure to make our way from the newer part of the city to the bottom of the oldest part to reach our flat in a historic before cars location for the evening. Making our way around the building and its neighborhood before climbing the hill for our supper in our walkabout we captured this homestead built between the old and new parts of Tursi to me it seemed like an observer of a lot of Tursi’s history and had probably seen better days itself.
Tursi is one of the oldest towns in Basilicata, it was founded by the Enotri peoples before 1000 BC then called Pandosia conquered and occupied as a Greek colony 400 years later lthen completely destroyed by the Romans during the Social War of the 1rst century BC . People apparently liked living in this area because the Roman city Anglona soon arose on the ruins finding itself destroyed by the VisiGoths after the fall of the Empire in 410AD.
The Visigoth’s tried to establish a stronghold here with a castle at the top of the hill but were drove out and soon a Saracen outpost was founded and stayed in place until the Byzantines took control in the 9th century when Tursi got its new name Tursikon.
I took this on Oct 3rd, 2018 with my D750 and Nikon 16-35mm f4.0 Lens at 26mm 2s f`16 ISO 100 processed in LR, PS +Lumenzia, Topaz , and DXO
Disclaimer: My style is a study of romantic realism as well as a work in progress