21 Sights in Prato, Italy (with Map and Images)
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Welcome to your journey through the most beautiful sights in Prato, Italy! Whether you want to discover the city's historical treasures or experience its modern highlights, you'll find everything your heart desires here. Be inspired by our selection and plan your unforgettable adventure in Prato. Dive into the diversity of this fascinating city and discover everything it has to offer.
Sightseeing Tours in Prato1. Prato Cathedral
Prato Cathedral, or Cathedral of Saint Stephen, is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Prato, Tuscany, Central Italy, from 1954 the seat of the Bishop of Prato, having been previously, from 1653, a cathedral in the Diocese of Pistoia and Prato. It is dedicated to Saint Stephen, the first Christian martyr.
2. Pulpito di Donatello
The pulpit of the Cathedral of Prato is a work by Donatello and Michelozzo, datable to 1428-1438. Composed of marble, bronze and mosaic tiles, it is located on the south-east side of the cathedral of Prato and measures 210 cm in height without the roof; each tile measures 73.5x79.
3. Square Form with Cut
Square shape with cut is a monumental sculpture in white marble made by the English artist Henry Moore, which was purchased by the city of Prato with the help of local industrialists, at the end of a monographic exhibition in 1972 and represents one of the greatest examples of contemporary sculpture in Italy.
4. Museo dell'Opera del Duomo
The Cathedral museum of Prato, Italy was founded in 1967 in a few rooms of the Bishop's residence and in 1976 grew to include items from both the Cathedral of Saint Stephen and the diocesan territory.
5. Palazzo Pretorio
The Palazzo Pretorio is a historical building in Prato, Tuscany, Italy. It was the old city hall, standing in front of the current Palazzo Comunale. It now accommodates the Civic Museum of Prato, which was reopened in September 2013.
6. Museo di pittura murale
The museum of mural painting is located in Prato, in the complex of the former convent of San Domenico; the entrance to the museum is next to the façade of the church of San Domenico. Built in 1974, it was the first Italian museum specifically intended to house detached frescoes, sinopias and other mural painting techniques of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, mainly from the Prato area. From 1998 to 2013, with the exhibition called The Treasures of the City, it was the main exhibition center of Prato, hosting all the masterpieces of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century painting until then preserved in the Civic Museum (Prato), which was under renovation in those years, and part of those of the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo. In the following years, a reorganization of the original collections and an expansion of the museum spaces were carried out, in anticipation of the creation of new sections of the museum.
7. Basilica di Santa Maria delle Carceri
Santa Maria delle Carceri is a basilica church, designed by Giuliano da Sangallo, and built in Prato, Tuscany, Italy. It is among the earliest examples of a Greek cross plan for a complete church in Renaissance architecture.
8. Palazzo degli Alberti
Palazzo degli Alberti is a historic noble palace in Prato, located in the center of the city, in the block between Via Banchelli, Via Rinaldesca and Via dell'Altopascio. Historic headquarters of the Cassa di Risparmio di Prato, of the Banca Popolare di Vicenza group, and now instead of the Intesa Sanpaolo group, here the banking institution has placed and opened its remarkable art collection to the public.
9. Convitto nazionale statale Francesco Cicognini
The Cicognini National Boarding School is a private Catholic primary and secondary school located in Prato, Tuscany, Italy. Established by the Jesuits in c. 1692, the school is the oldest school in the city and follows the legacy of Francesco Cicognini.
10. Museo del Tessuto
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.
11. Tabernacolo di Sant'Anna
The tabernacle of Sant'Anna is located a few meters from the parish church of San Pietro in Figline, along the Via Vecchia di Cantagallo, in the direction of the ancient medieval road to Bologna. It is the work of Agnolo Gaddi, a Florentine painter of the second half of the fourteenth century, commissioned by the Migliorati family and built around the year 1390.
12. Cappella Migliorati
The Chapter of San Francesco in Prato, also known as the Migliorati Chapel, is a room in the Church of San Francesco (Prato), one of Niccolò Gerini's greatest masterpieces. Born as the Chapter House of the Order of Friars Minor Conventual, it is located inside the Renaissance cloister of the Church of San Francesco (Prato).
13. Fontana del Bacchino
The fountain of the Bacchus, built in the seventeenth century by the sculptor Ferdinando Tacca, is located in Piazza del Comune in Prato in front of the Palazzo Pretorio and is one of the symbols of the city.
14. Chiesa dei Cappuccini
The Capuchin church and the adjoining convent of Prato are located in Via Diaz, near the beginning of the Capuchin climb. The structure housed a community of Capuchin Friars Minor until 2012, after which the convent was closed.
15. Museo Casa Francesco Datini
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.
16. Santa Maria dell'Umiltà - Chiesanuova
The church of Santa Maria dell'Umiltà is located in Chiesanuova (Prato). Chiesanuova dal Latino is one of the oldest hamlets in the province of Prato. From some manuscripts from the Florentine Anglican library, the Prato hamlet appears for the first time during the year 983 BC. Home of the famous Lippi family during the sixteenth century (including Filippino Lippi) it stands just outside the medieval historic center of Prato.
17. Chiesa di San Biagio
The church of San Biagio in Cavagliano is a Catholic place of worship located in the municipal area of Prato, on the slopes of Calvana, in the hamlet of Cavagliano. It is a subsidiary church of the parish of Santa Maria Assunta in Filettole.
18. Basilica dei Santi Vincenzo e Caterina de' Ricci
The Minor Basilica of Santi Vicenzo e Caterina de' Ricci is a Catholic church, built in the 16th to 18th centuries, and located in the town of Prato, in Tuscany, Italy. Adjacent to the church is a 16th-century monastery.
19. Monumento a Francesco Datini
The Monument to Francesco Datini is one of the symbols of Prato and is located in Piazza del Comune by the Ferrara sculptor Antonio Garella. Made of white Carrara marble, it is dedicated to the merchant of Prato, Francesco Datini, and depicts the character in the act of handing his will to the poor, who were the recipients of his immense wealth through the establishment of the Ospedale del Ceppo. The pedestal has bronze bas-reliefs on the life of the famous merchant. The work returned to its former glory after the restoration completed in 2010. The original cast of the sculpture was kept at the Convitto Cicognini where it was accidentally destroyed in 2015. Every August 17, the city pays homage to the merchant and patron by placing a laurel wreath at the base of the sculpture.
20. Palazzo Lorini Pittei
The Lorini Pittei palace, the result of an eighteenth-century remodeling of a series of thirteenth-century buildings, is located in Piazza del Duomo in Prato on the corner with Corso Mazzoni and Palazzo Vestri.
21. Monumento ai Caduti di Prato
The war memorial, depicting Heroism comforting Duty, is located in Prato in Piazza delle Carceri on the opposite side of the Emperor's castle. The work of the sculptor Antonio Maraini, it was inaugurated on May 22, 1934, the same day that the railway station was inaugurated in the presence of the King.
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