Prades, Pyrénées-Orientales

Prades
Prada de Conflent

Jacomet House

Coat of arms

Prades

Location within Occitanie region

Prades

Coordinates: 42°37′05″N 2°25′22″E / 42.6181°N 2.4228°ECoordinates: 42°37′05″N 2°25′22″E / 42.6181°N 2.4228°E

Country

Government

• Mayor (2001–2008)

Jean-François Denis

Area¹

10.87 km² (4.20 sq mi)

Population (2006)²

6,620

• Density

610/km² (1,600/sq mi)

Time zone

CET (UTC+1)

• Summer (DST)

CEST (UTC+2)

INSEE/Postal code

66149 / 66500

Elevation

300–745 m (984–2,444 ft)
(avg. 357 m or 1,171 ft)

¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

²Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Prades (French pronunciation: [pʁad]; Catalan: Prada de Conflent pronounced: [ˈpɾaðə ðə kumˈfɫen]) is a commune and a sub-prefecture of the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France. It is the capital of the historical Conflent comarca. Its inhabitants are called Pradéens/Pradéennes in French, and Pradencs/Pradenques in Catalan.

Prades is located in the canton of Prades and in the arrondissement of Prades, in the Pyrenees Mountains next to the Canigó and Têt River. Its nearby towns include Codalet, Eus, Vinça, Villefranche-de-Conflent

Prades is twinned with:

The Prades Festival, which specialises in chamber music, was begun in 1950, when eminent musicians were invited to play with Casals to commemorate the bicentenary of the death of Johann Sebastian Bach. This followed a decade during which Casals had declined to play in public because of events in Spain. From the first festival, recordings of performances at Prades were released on the Columbia record label.

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