Prato

Prato is a city of about 195,000 inhabitants in , immediately to the west of , and also the capital of the Province of Prato. The city is famous in and beyond for textile production and for the biscotto di Prato.
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  • Type: City with 191,000 residents
  • Description: Italian comune
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Prato Cathedral and Prato Centrale railway station.

Church
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, or Cathedral of Saint Stephen, is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Prato, , , from 1954 the seat of the Bishop of Prato, having been previously, from 1653, a cathedral in the Diocese of Pistoia and Prato.

Railway station
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is the main station serving the city and comune of Prato, in the region of , . Opened in 1862, it forms part of both the Bologna–Florence railway and the Viareggio–Florence railway.

Church
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is a basilica church, designed by Giuliano da Sangallo, and built in Prato, , . It is among the earliest examples of a Greek cross plan for a complete church in Renaissance architecture.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Calenzano and Filettole.

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is a city in . Small city not far from Florence, located in the foot hills of the Calvana mountains and Mount Morello.

Hamlet
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is a hamlet.

Village
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is a village of Prato with 1,500 people.

Prato

Latitude
43.8806° or 43° 52′ 50″ north
Longitude
11.0969° or 11° 5′ 49″ east
Population
191,000
Elevation
61 metres (200 feet)
United Nations Location Code
IT OTA
Open location code
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Open­Street­Map ID
node 61753372
Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
3169921
Wiki­data ID
Q13377
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Prato” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Prato”
  • Arabic: “براتو”
  • Aragonese: “Prato”
  • Armenian: “Պրատո”
  • Asturian: “Prato”
  • Azerbaijani: “Prato”
  • Basque: “Prato”
  • Belarusian: “Прата”
  • Bengali: “প্রাতো”
  • Breton: “Prato”
  • Bulgarian: “Прато”
  • Catalan: “Prato”
  • Cebuano: “Prato”
  • Central Bikol: “Prato”
  • Chechen: “Прато”
  • Chinese: “Prato”
  • Chinese: “普拉圖”
  • Chinese: “普拉托”
  • Chuvash: “Прато”
  • Corsican: “Pratu”
  • Croatian: “Prato”
  • Czech: “Prato”
  • Danish: “Prato”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Prato”
  • Dutch: “Prato”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “براتو”
  • Esperanto: “Prato”
  • Estonian: “Prato”
  • Finnish: “Prato”
  • French: “Prato”
  • Galician: “Prato, Italia”
  • Galician: “Prato”
  • Georgian: “პრატო”
  • German: “Prato”
  • Greek: “Πράτο”
  • Gujarati: “પ્રાટો”
  • Hebrew: “פראטו”
  • Hindi: “प्राटो”
  • Hungarian: “Prato”
  • Icelandic: “Prató”
  • Inari Sami: “Prato”
  • Indonesian: “Prato”
  • Interlingua: “Prato”
  • Irish: “Prato”
  • Italian: “Prato”
  • Japanese: “プラート”
  • Kannada: “ಪ್ರಾಟೋ”
  • Kazakh: “Прато”
  • Korean: “프라토”
  • Kotava: “Prato”
  • Ladin: “Prato”
  • Latin: “Pratum”
  • Latvian: “Prato”
  • Lithuanian: “Pratas”
  • Lombard: “Prato”
  • Luxembourgish: “Prato”
  • Macedonian: “Прато”
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  • Maltese: “Prato”
  • Marathi: “प्राटो”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Prato”
  • Narom: “Prato”
  • Neapolitan: “Prato”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Prato”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Prato”
  • Norwegian: “Prato”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Prato”
  • Ossetian: “Прато”
  • Papiamento: “Prato”
  • Persian: “پراتو”
  • Piemontese: “Prato”
  • Polish: “Prato”
  • Portuguese: “Prato”
  • Quechua: “Prato”
  • Romagnol: “Prè”
  • Romanian: “Prato”
  • Russian: “Прато”
  • Sanskrit: “प्रातो”
  • Scots: “Prato”
  • Serbian: “Прато”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Prato”
  • Sicilian: “Pratu”
  • Silesian: “Prato”
  • Sinhala: “ප්‍රැටෝ”
  • Slovak: “Prato”
  • Slovenian: “Prato”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پراتو”
  • Spanish: “Prato”
  • Swahili: “Prato”
  • Swedish: “Prato”
  • Tagalog: “Prato”
  • Tahitian: “Prato”
  • Tajik: “Прато”
  • Tamil: “பிராடோ”
  • Tatar: “Прато”
  • Telugu: “ప్రాటో”
  • Thai: “ปราโต”
  • Turkish: “Prato”
  • Ukrainian: “Прато”
  • Urdu: “پراتو”
  • Venetian: “Prato”
  • Vietnamese: “Prato”
  • Volapük: “Prato”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Prato”
  • Welsh: “Prato”
  • Western Frisian: “Prato”
  • Western Panjabi: “پراٹو”
  • Wu Chinese: “普拉托”
  • Xhosa: “Prato (umasipala waseItali, Toscana, Provincia di Prato, lat 43.88, ubude 11.09)”
  • Xhosa: “Prato”
  • Yue Chinese: “普拉圖”
  • “Prato”
  • “Prè”

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