
Prato is a capital city of same province in the Tuscany, Italy. It has an area of 365 km², and a total population of 228,000 inhabitants. Named after the field in which the first big market was held, Prato is the second largest city in Tuscany. It became the capital of a province 1992 thus obtaining its autonomy from nearby Florence to whom it had previously had to defer.
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