Prades, Pyrénées-Orientales

Prades
Prada de Conflent
Subprefecture and commune

Jacomet House

Coat of arms
Prades

Coordinates: 42°37′05″N 2°25′22″E / 42.6181°N 2.4228°E / 42.6181; 2.4228Coordinates: 42°37′05″N 2°25′22″E / 42.6181°N 2.4228°E / 42.6181; 2.4228
Country France
Region Occitanie
Department Pyrénées-Orientales
Arrondissement Prades
Canton Les Pyrénées catalanes
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.

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

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.

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

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.[1] 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 to 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

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.

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.prades-festival-casals.com/uk/
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