Prades, Pyrénées-Orientales

Prades (French: [pʁad]; Catalan: Prada de Conflent [ˈpɾaðə ðə kuɱˈflen]) is a subprefecture of the Pyrénées-Orientales department in the Occitanie region of Southern France.

Canigó mountain to the south of Prades, and the hills to the north of the town, are on quite different geological formations.

They are separated by the Têt fault (a major normal fault of Neogene age), and by a zone of younger (Miocene and Quaternary) sediments (those sediments in fact covering the greater part of Prades commune).

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.

Map of Prades and its surrounding communes
The town of Prades (seen here from the south) is located on a terrace of the River Têt, about 20 metres above the current course of that river. (The Têt follows a course broadly along the line of trees which run from left to right, just beyond the church tower.) [ 5 ]
Prades commune, seen from the west. The dashed red line indicates the approximate extent of the commune.