If you are looking for the best way to get in touch with Prato and its inhabitants, then we advise you to pay attention to the rich schedule of concerts, shows, exhibitions and other events that mark the calendar. The tourist information office in Piazza Buonamici is however the first place to visit: here you will find all the information you need to visit Prato and its main attractions, and all the means to do it, including maps like "Use-It", a map and a quick compendium of what not to loose in the city, that changes graphics and contents every year. Remaining in the institutional setting, on the site you are reading (pratoturismo.it) you can also find a rich calendar of events and other precise indications on how to live the city.
If instead you are looking for an independent compass on city life, that compass is definitely "Pratosfera" (www.pratosfera.com), a portal that since 2013, among other things, selects and promotes the best of cultural programming in the city and all the news related to catering and entertainment. A different approach, mainly made of photographs and in English, is certainly represented by the "Visit Prato" fanpage.
Those who prefer classical information, that of news and politics, will find everything you are looking for on "Notizie di Prato" (Prato News), the most popular information site in the city, and on the page dedicated to Prato on "Il Tirreno" newspaper. Let's say that when you visit a new city, you love to buy a newspaper and maybe bring it home. In this case, the choice can only fall on the historical newspaper of the city, "La Nazione".