STURA
STURA (
Stura), a river of Northern Italy, one of the confluents of the Padus (
Plin. Nat. 3.16. s. 20), which joins that river a few miles below
Turin (Augusta Taurinorum), within a few miles of the Duria Minor or
Dora Riparia. It still retains its ancient name and is a considerable stream, rising in the glaciers of the Alps, between the
Roche Melon and
Mont Iseran. [
E.H.B]