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| Country | France |
| Region | Languedoc-Roussillon |
| Department | Pyrénées-Orientales |
| Arrondissement | Prades |
| Canton | Prades |
| Mayor | Jean-François Denis (2001–2008) |
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| Elevation | 300–745 m (980–2,444 ft) (avg. 357 m/1,171 ft) |
| Land area1 | 10.87 km2 (4.20 sq mi) |
| Population2 | 6,620 (2006) |
| - Density | 609 /km2 (1,580 /sq mi) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 66149/ 66500 |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
| 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once. | |
Prades (Catalan: Prada de Conflent) 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.
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It is located in the Pyrenees Mountains next to the Canigó and Têt River. Its nearby towns include Codalet, Eus, Vinça, Villefranche-de-Conflent
Prades was the birthplace of Thomas Merton (1915–1968), a famous Trappist (or Cistercian) monk who spent most of his life at the Abbey of Gethsemani near Bardstown, Kentucky in the United States.
It 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.
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 is twinned with: