Loreto (AN)
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Loreto is a hilltown and comune of the Italian province of Ancona, in the Marche. Its 2003 population was 11,400.
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Location
Loreto is located at 43°26N 13°26E, at 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.
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).
See also
External links and references
- Official Site of the comune (http://www.comune.loreto.an.it/)
- Official site of the sanctuary (http://www.santuarioloreto.it/arte/ornamento_eng.htm)
- Catholic Encyclopedia article Loreto (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13454b.htm)
- U. Chevalier, Notre-Dame de Lorette (Paris, 1906);de:Loreto (Ancona)