Loreto (brands)

Loreto
Country	Italy
region	Brands
province	Ancona (AN)
Coordinates	43 ° 26 ' N , 13 ° 37' E Coordinates: 43 ° 26 '20 " N , 13 ° 36' 31" E
height	125 m slm
surface	17 km²
Residents	12,913 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density	760 inhabitants / km²
Factions	Villa Musone, Costabianca, Grotto, Archi
Post Code	60025
prefix	071
ISTAT number	042022
Popular name	Lauretani or Loretani
Patron saint	Mary (mother of Jesus)
Website	Loreto
	; Basilica of the Holy House

Loreto is an Italian municipality with 12,913 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2013) in the Marche , about 20 km southeast of Ancona in the foreland of the Gran Sasso Mountains.

The neighboring municipalities are Castelfidardo , Porto Recanati ( MC ) and Recanati ( MC ).

Place of pilgrimage

Loreto, basilica

After St. Peter's Basilica in Rome , Loreto is the second most important place of pilgrimage in Italy and one of the most important in the Catholic world. The Basilica of the Holy House contains the Santa Casa , according to legend the Holy House of Nazareth, where Mary grew up and received the Annunciation . It is said to have been carried to Loreto by angels.

The place was named after numerous church buildings, including geographical conditions, for example for the Lorettoberge in Freiburg or Constance . In the German-speaking area there are numerous Loreto chapels that are modeled on the Holy House of Loreto.

The basilica's art treasures include a Black Madonna and important works by Melozzo da Forlì , Andrea Sansovino and Luca Signorelli .

Loreto on an illustration from 1725
View into the dome, frescoes by Melozzo da Forlì (1477/79)
Detail from the dome fresco
Basilica illuminated

European youth meeting

Pope Benedict XVI invited the youth in October 2006 during the general audience to a meeting with the Pope on September 1st and 2nd, 2007 in the Italian Marian pilgrimage site on the occasion of the Agora of the Italian Youth. The meeting was organized by the Italian Bishops' Conference in collaboration with the Pontifical Council for the Laity. More than 400,000 young people from all over Europe came. At the meeting, the Pope made an emphatic call for environmental and climate protection. Loreto 2007 was the start of the XXIII. World Youth Day in Sydney, Australia, which took place in the summer of 2008.

politics

mayor

Mayor of the city is Paolo Niccoletti.

Town twinning

In the “ Shrines of Europe ” collaboration , Loreto has been connected to five other Marian shrines since 1996 ; In 2017 Einsiedeln became the seventh member. The partner locations are:

	Altötting ( Germany )
	Einsiedeln ( Switzerland )
	Fátima ( Portugal )
	Lourdes ( France )
	Mariazell ( Austria )
	Czestochowa ( Poland ; Polish Częstochowa)