Prades, Pyrénées-Orientales

Prades
Prades; Prada de Conflent
	Subprefecture and commune
	Jacomet House
	Coat of arms
	Location of Prades
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	Coordinates: 42°37′05″N 2°25′22″E
Country	France
Region	Occitanie
Department	Pyrénées-Orientales
Arrondissement	Prades
Canton	Les Pyrénées catalanes
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Jean Castex (LR)
Area 1	10.87 km2 (4.20 sq mi)
Population (2017-01-01)[1]	6,124
• Density	560/km2 (1,500/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
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.

Prades (French pronunciation: [pʁad]; Catalan: Prada de Conflent [ˈpɾaðə ðə kumˈflen]) is a commune and a subprefecture of the Pyrénées-Orientales department in the Occitanie region of Southern France. It is the capital of the historical Conflent comarca. Its inhabitants are called Pradéens and Pradéennes in French and Pradencs and Pradenques in Catalan; in 2017, Prades had a population of 6,124.

Geography

Prades is located in the canton of Les Pyrénées catalanes 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

Map of Prades and its surrounding communes

Politics and administration

Mayors

Mayor	Term start	Term end
Jean-François Denis	2001	2008
Jean Castex	2008	2015

Twin towns

Prades is twinned with:

Population and society

Demography

Population 1962-2008

Events

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.[2] 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.

The festival moved to Perpignan in 1951, but returned to Prades the following year. It was renamed the Pablo Casals Festival in 1982.

Universitat Catalana d'Estiu

Every summer, since 1968, the Universitat Catalana d'Estiu (Catalan Summer University) is held at Prada de Conflent. It is an academic event which usually lasts ten days, open to everybody, where scholars, artists, and other personalities coming from all over the Catalan Countries lecture and discuss about a variety of topics of general interest.

Notable people

Pierre Nicolas Camille Jacquelin du Val (1828-1862), entomologist born in Prades.
Thomas Merton (1915–1968), trappist monk born in Prades.

Prades was also the adopted home of cellist Pablo Casals and grammarian Pompeu Fabra during their exile from the Spanish Civil War. A small museum in Prades commemorates Casals.

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References

INSEE commune file

"Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
"Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-04-27. Retrieved 2013-02-04.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

External links

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[1] "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.

[2] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-04-27. Retrieved 2013-02-04.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)