Loreto (AN)

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Piazza della Madonna with front of the Basilica

Loreto is a hilltown and comune of the Italian province of Ancona, in the Marche. Its 2003 population was 11,400.

1 Location
2 Sights
3 See also
4 External links and references
5 References

[edit] Location

Loreto is located 127 m (417 ft) above sea-level on the right bank of the Musone river. It is 22 km (15 mi) by rail SSE of Ancona. Like many places in the Marche, it provides good views from the Apennines to the Adriatic.

[edit] Sights

Loreto's main monuments occupy the four sides of the piazza: the college of the Jesuits, the Palazzo Comunale (formerly the Palazzo Apostolico), designed by Bramante, with an art gallery with works of Lorenzo Lotto, Vouet and Caracci as well as a collection of majolica, and the Basilica of the Holy House (Chiesa della Casa Santa).

[edit] See also

Shrines to the Virgin Mary

[edit] External links and references

[edit] References

This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
U. Chevalier, Notre-Dame de Lorette (Paris, 1906);