Prades
Prada de Conflent
| |
|---|---|
Subprefecture and commune
| |
Église Saint-Pierre
| |
Coat of arms | |
Location of Prades  | |
  Prades Show map of France  Prades Show map of Occitanie | |
| Coordinates: 42°37′05″N 2°25′22″E / 42.6181°N 2.4228°E / 42.6181; 2.4228 | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Occitania |
| Department | Pyrénées-Orientales |
| Arrondissement | Prades |
| Canton | Les Pyrénées catalanes |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2020–2026) | Yves Delcor[1] (DVD) |
| Area
1
| 10.87 km2 (4.20 sq mi) |
| Population
(2021)[2]
| 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 subprefecture of the Pyrénées-Orientales department in the Occitanie regionofSouthern France.[3] In 2018, the commune had a population of 6,063. Prades is the capital of the historical Conflent comarca. Its inhabitants are called Pradéens and Pradéennes in French and Pradencs and Pradenques in Catalan. It is also the hometown of Jean Castex, who served as Prime Minister of France from 2020 to 2022.
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 and Villefranche-de-Conflent.
| Mayor | Term start | Term end |
|---|---|---|
| Jean-François Denis | 2001 | 2008 |
| Jean Castex | 2008 | 2015 |
Prades is twinned with:
 |
Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org.
|
| Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
|---|---|---|
| 1968 | 5,937 | — |
| 1975 | 6,448 | +1.19% |
| 1982 | 6,100 | −0.79% |
| 1990 | 6,009 | −0.19% |
| 1999 | 5,800 | −0.39% |
| 2007 | 6,356 | +1.15% |
| 2012 | 5,851 | −1.64% |
| 2017 | 6,124 | +0.92% |
| Source: INSEE[5] | ||
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.[6] 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.
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.
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.
| International |
|
|---|---|
| National |
|
| Geographic |
|
| Other |
|
 | This Pyrénées-Orientales geographical article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
