Visiting Prato
Walking through the old town there are the museums of Mural Painting which was staged the exhibition Treasures of the City, the Municipal Gallery of the Alberti and it conserves important collections that reach the artistic season of the early twentieth century, the Center for the Arts Contemporary Art "Luigi Pecci" which organizes exhibitions and demonstrations of the most famous artists of the museum and Tissue expression of the textile history of the city, which preserved valuable fragments of tissue from the Middle Ages to the present and the fabrics with which they were dressed the Pope and Cardinals in ceremonies for the 2000 Jubilee.
The city of Prato is famous for the fact that wool textile processing has been since the Middle Ages, an important role in the economic and social development of the entire district and now, with its modern factories, has been transferred into industrial zones.
The province is full of interest for tourists, even here the signs of history and art left by the Etruscans, Romans and Lombards are perfectly visible.
The Etruscan necropolis and to Comeana and Artimino, Romanesque churches scattered in Carmignanese, ancient Badie Val di Bisenzio, medieval villages, beautiful villas Medici at Poggio a Caiano and Artimino, Parco Museo Quinto Martini Seano and environmental Mercatale of Vernio; the hills of Montalbano, with vineyards and olive groves, the picturesque scenery of the karst massif Calvana that faces the spur wooded area on the right bank of the Bisenzio.