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Prägraten am Großvenediger is a municipality in the Austrian state of Tyrol in the district of Lienz (East Tyrol). The municipal area includes the rear Virgen Valley and its side valleys. Extensive parts of the municipal area belong to the Hohe Tauern National Park.

Culture and sights

Among the most important sights of the municipality of Prägraten are the numerous ecclesiastical buildings.

Culture and customs
The oldest cultural association in the community is the music band, founded in 1849. It consists of about 60 musicians and has had its own youth brass band since 2002.

Sport
Prägraten has been a stage destination of the Tour of Austria since 2006 and is home to three sports clubs. The largest is the Sportunion Prägraten am Großvenediger, founded in 1955.

As recently as 2007, the municipality of Prägraten was organized together with the East Tyrolean national park municipalities in the Hohe Tauern East Tyrol National Park vacation region. In 2008, the three East Tyrolean tourism associations were merged to form the "Tourism Association East Tyrol".