Prades (Pyrénées-Orientales)
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| region | Occitania | |
| Department | Pyrénées-Orientales | |
| Arrondissement | Prades | |
| Canton | Les Pyrénées Catalanes (main town) | |
| Community association | Conflent-Canigó | |
| Coordinates | 42 ° 37 ' N , 2 ° 25' E | |
| height | 300-745 m | |
| surface | 10.87 km 2 | |
| Residents | 6,124 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 563 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 66500 | |
| INSEE code | 66149 | |
| Website | http://www.prades.com/ | |
Prades (in Catalan Prada ) is a French commune with 6,124 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in the Occitanie region . It is the administrative center of the Prades arrondissement and the canton of Les Pyrénées catalanes . In addition to the official language French, Catalan is also spoken. From 1939 the world-famous cellist Pau Casals lived in Prades, where he founded a festival with outstanding musicians in the post-war period.
geography
Prades is located west of Perpignan at the foot of the Canigou and the Têt River . It is the capital of the Conflent .
population
Church Saint-Pierre
Altarpiece Saint-Pierre
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| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2011 | 2017 |
| Residents | 5676 | 5937 | 6448 | 6100 | 6009 | 5800 | 6221 | 5854 | 6124 |
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Culture
The Prades Festival , which specializes in chamber music , was founded in 1950 by Pablo Casals when he invited important musicians to play together to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Johann Sebastian Bach's death ; Columbia Records subsequently released recordings from these Casals concerts. In 1951 the festival took place in Perpignan but returned to Prades the following year. It was renamed the Pablo Casals Festival in 1982 and takes place annually in July and August.
In 1959, under the patronage of René Clair, the International Film Festival was launched in Prades , which takes place in the third week of July.
In 1968, at the time of the Franco regime and the oppression of Catalonia , the idea of a Catalan summer university ( Universitat Catalana d'Estiu ) to promote the Catalan language and culture, which has existed annually since 1969, was born.
Attractions
- Church Saint-Pierre with one of the greatest Baroque - altarpiece France
- Medieval houses in the local area
Town twinning
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the church
- Thomas Merton (1915–1968), Trappist and mystic
- Pierre Vincent Xambeu (1837–1917), officer and entomologist
Associated with Prades
- Pablo Casals (1876–1973), cellist, lived in exile in Prades
- In Prades, the two reform pedagogues Pitt (1904–1989) and Yvès (1903–1988) Krüger, who had built La Coûme near Prades, in Mosset , died , an institution that was originally young Germans, who from 1933 before the Nazis who had fled Germany should help. The Krügers later helped Spanish civil war refugees, supported the Resistance and finally brought their property to the non-profit Foundation Krüger , which continues to exist as a place of encounter and cultural openness.
- Jean Castex (* 1965) was Mayor of Prades from 2008-2020 and Prime Minister of France since 2020
