Stará Turá or Stara Rura is a town in the Trenčín Region in western Slovakia.

The first written record about Stará Turá was in 1392, as a village belonging to the Čachtice Castle.

It was part of it until feudalism ceased to exist in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Kingdom of Hungary.

Before the establishment of independent Czechoslovakia in 1918, Stará Turá was part of Nyitra County within the Kingdom of Hungary.

[6] Secondary Industrial School is located in the city.