Prez () is a municipality in the district of Sarine in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. On 1 January 2020, the former municipalities of Corserey, Noréaz and Prez-vers-Noréaz merged to form the new municipality of Prez.Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz published by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office accessed 02 January 2020
World Heritage Site The former municipality of Noréaz is home to the En Praz des Gueux prehistoric pile-dwelling (or stilt house) settlements that are part of the Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps UNESCO World Heritage Site.UNESCO World Heritage Site - Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps
En Praz des Gueux is the only prehistoric lakeside settlement on the banks of a small lake in the Canton of Fribourg. The site is dated to the classic Cortaillod era (4000-3500 BC). The site was discovered by accident in 1971 in a boggy area near the present shore of the Lac de Seedorf. Under a layer of about of peat timbers, gravel and stone slabs were discovered.palafittes.org UNESCO nomination files-Volume II: Id-files of the component parts of the serial, Sites Switzerland (2) accessed 10-December-2011
History Corserey Corserey is first mentioned around 1150-62 as Corserei.
Noréaz Noréaz is first mentioned in 1134 as Noarea.
Prez-vers-Noréaz Prez-vers-Noréaz is first mentioned in 1156 as de Pratellis.
Geography Post-merger Prez has an area, (as of the 2004/09 survey), of .
Demographics The new municipality has a population () of .
Historic Population The historical population is given in the following chart:Swiss Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB Bevölkerungsentwicklung nach institutionellen Gliederungen, 1850-2000 accessed 27 April 2016
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