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The Best Attractions In Prato

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Prato is a city and comune in Tuscany, Italy, the capital of the Province of Prato. The city is at the foot of Monte Retaia, elevation 768 metres , the last peak in the Calvana chain. The lowest elevation in the comune is 32 metres , near the Cascine di Tavola, and the highest is the peak of Monte Cantagrillo at 818 metres . The Bisenzio, a tributary of the Arno, flows through it. With more than 193,000 inhabitants, Prato is Tuscany's second largest city and the third largest in Central Italy, after Rome and Florence. Historically, Prato's economy has been based on the textile industry. The renowned Datini archives are a significant collection of late ...
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  • 4. Duomo Prato
    Florence Cathedral, formally the Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore , is the cathedral of Florence, Italy . It was begun in 1296 in the Gothic style to a design of Arnolfo di Cambio and was structurally completed by 1436, with the dome designed by Filippo Brunelleschi. The exterior of the basilica is faced with polychrome marble panels in various shades of green and pink, bordered by white, and has an elaborate 19th-century Gothic Revival façade by Emilio De Fabris. The cathedral complex, in Piazza del Duomo, includes the Baptistery and Giotto's Campanile. These three buildings are part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site covering the historic centre of Florence and are a major tourist attraction of Tuscany. The basilica is one of Italy's largest churches, and until the development of new ...
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  • 5. Museo Del Tessuto Prato
    The Campolmi Factory, the Prato textile museum and Lazzerini Library is a textile museum and library in Prato in Tuscany, Italy. The museum is an Anchor point on the European Route of Industrial Heritage.
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  • 6. Santa Maria delle Carceri Prato
    Santa Maria delle Carceri is a basilica church in Prato, Tuscany, Italy. It is considered one of the earliest, most notable examples of use of Greek cross plan in Renaissance architecture.
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  • 7. Palazzo Datini Prato
    Palazzo Datini is a late 14th-century palace in Prato, Tuscany, central Italy. In 2015, the palace housed the offices of the Fondazione Casa Pia dei Ceppi, a charitable organization and a museum and archive.
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  • 10. Piazza del Comune Prato
    Piazza della Repubblica is a city square in Florence, Italy. It is on the site, first of the city's forum and then of the city's old ghetto, which was swept away during the city improvement works or Risanamento initiated during the brief period when Florence was the capital of a reunited Italy, work that also created the city's avenues and boulevards. The ghetto has disappeared from the square, and the Loggia del Pesce from the Mercato Vecchio was moved to Piazza Ciompi. Among the square's cafes, the Giubbe Rosse cafe has long been a meeting place for famous artists and writers, notably those of Futurism.
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  • 11. Museo e centro di documentazione della Deportazione e Resistenza Prato
    The Museo e Centro di Documentazione della Deportazione e Resistenza is a museum in Prato, central Italy, dedicated to the history of Fascism’s occurrence and rise to power in Italy. It records the political, racial, and religious persecution and deportation of people in concentration and extermination camps and with resistance during World War II. The institution is located in Figline di Prato, where on 6 September 1944, 29 partisans were killed by German armed forces.
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