Loreto
Loreto is a hill town and comune of the Italian province of Ancona, in the Marche region. It is most commonly known as the seat of the Basilica della Santa Casa, a popular Catholic pilgrimage site.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 12,800 residents
- Description: hill town and comune of the Italian province of Ancona, in the Marche
- Also known as: “042022”, “Loreto, Marche”, and “Loretto”
- Neighbors: Recanati
Places of Interest
Highlights include Basilica della Santa Casa and Loreto train station.
Basilica della Santa Casa
Church
Photo: Mroselli, CC BY-SA 2.5.
The Basilica della Santa Casa is a Marian shrine in Loreto, in the Marches, Italy. The basilica is known for enshrining the house in which the Blessed Virgin Mary is believed by some Catholics to have lived.
Loreto train station
Railway station
Photo: MOs810, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Loreto train station is a railway station.
Museo pontificio della Santa Casa
Museum
Photo: Parsifall, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Museo pontificio della Santa Casa is a museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Recanati.
Recanati
Photo: Lkcl it, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Recanati is a comune in the province of Macerata, in the Italian region of Marche. Recanati was founded around 1150 AD from three pre-existing castles.
Loreto
- Categories: town and commune of Italy
- Location: Ancona, Marche, Central Italy, Italy, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Loreto” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “لوريتو (ماركي)”
- Arabic: “لوريتو”
- Armenian: “Լորետո (Մարկե)”
- Armenian: “Լորետո”
- Asturian: “Loreto”
- Basque: “Loreto (Italia)”
- Basque: “Loreto”
- Belarusian: “Ларэта (Марке)”
- Belarusian: “Ларэта”
- Breton: “Loreto”
- Bulgarian: “Лорето”
- Catalan: “Loreto”
- Cebuano: “Loreto”
- Chechen: “Лорето”
- Chinese: “Loreto, Marche”
- Chinese: “洛雷托”
- Croatian: “Loreto”
- Czech: “Loreto”
- Danish: “Loreto”
- Dutch: “Loreto (Ancona)”
- Dutch: “Loreto”
- Esperanto: “Loreto”
- Estonian: “Loreto”
- Finnish: “Loreto”
- French: “Loreto”
- French: “Lorette”
- Galician: “Loreto”
- German: “Loreto”
- Greek: “Λορέτο”
- Hebrew: “לורטו”
- Hungarian: “Loreto”
- Inari Sami: “Loreto”
- Interlingua: “Loreto”
- Irish: “Loreto”
- Italian: “Comune di Loreto”
- Italian: “Loreto”
- Japanese: “ロレート”
- Korean: “로레토”
- Kurdish: “Loreto”
- Ladin: “Loreto”
- Latin: “Lauretum”
- Latin: “Loreto”
- Lithuanian: “Loretas”
- Lombard: “Loreto”
- Macedonian: “Лорето”
- Malay: “Loreto, Marche”
- Malay: “Loreto”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Loreto”
- Moksha: “Ларэто”
- Moroccan Arabic: “لوريطو”
- Neapolitan: “Loreto”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Loreto”
- Norwegian: “Loreto”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Laureta (Itàlia)”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Laureta”
- Ossetian: “Лорето”
- Persian: “لورتو، مارکه”
- Persian: “لورتو”
- Piemontese: “Loreto”
- Polish: “Loreto”
- Portuguese: “Loreto”
- Romanian: “Loreto, Marche”
- Romanian: “Loreto”
- Russian: “Лорето”
- Sardinian: “Loreto”
- Scots: “Loreto”
- Serbian: “Loreto”
- Serbian: “Лорето”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Loreto, Ancona”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Loreto”
- Slovenian: “Loreto”
- South Azerbaijani: “لورتو، مارکه”
- South Azerbaijani: “لورتو”
- Spanish: “Loreto”
- Swedish: “Loreto”
- Tagalog: “Loreto, Marche”
- Tagalog: “Loreto”
- Tatar: “Лорето”
- Turkish: “Loreto”
- Ukrainian: “Лорето”
- Uzbek: “Loreto”
- Venetian: “Loreto (AN)”
- Venetian: “Loreto”
- Vietnamese: “Loreto, Marche”
- Vietnamese: “Loreto”
- Volapük: “Loreto”
- Waray (Philippines): “Loreto, Ancona”
- Waray (Philippines): “Loreto”
- “Loreto”
- “Loreto (AN)”
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