Loreto
Loreto is Italian for laurel-wood. A town in Italy named Loreto holds an important Christian shrine, which lead to the spread of the name to many other countries. It may refer to:
Places
Argentina
- Loreto, Santiago del Estero, Argentina
- Loreto, Misiones, village and municipality in Misiones Province, Argentina
Bolivia
- Loreto, Beni, Bolivia
Brazil
- Loreto (Maranhão), Brazil
Ecuador
- Loreto Canton, a canton in Orellana Province, Ecuador
Italy
- Loreto, Marche, Italy, home of the Basilica della Santa Casa after which the other shrines are named
- Loreto Aprutino, Pescara, Italy
Mexico
- Loreto Municipality, Baja California Sur, Mexico
- Loreto, Baja California Sur, Mexico
- Loreto, Zacatecas, Mexico
Paraguay
- Loreto, Concepción Department, Paraguay
Peru
- Loreto Region, Peru
- Loreto Province, Peru
Philippines
- Loreto, Agusan del Sur, Philippines
- Loreto, Dinagat Islands, Philippines
Switzerland
- Loreto, Switzerland, a district of Lugano, Switzerland
Other
- Loreto (meteorite), found in 1896 in Baja California Sur, Mexico
- Loreto (Milan Metro), a subway station on the Line 1 of Milan Metro
- Nicolás del Campo (full name "Nicolás Francisco Cristóbal del Campo, Marquis of Loreto", 1725–1803), sometimes referred to as "Viceroy Loreto"
People
- Loreto Carbonell (1933-2017), Filipino basketball player
- Loreto Cucchiarelli (born 1943), Italian former rugby union player now serving as a coach
- Loreto Di Franco (1578–1638), Roman Catholic prelate
- Loreto Garza (born 1962), former American boxer and light welterweight world champion
- Loreto Silva (born 1964), female Chilean deputy minister
See also
- Loreta, a pilgrimage destination in Prague
- Loreto College (disambiguation), list of schools named Loreto College or Loreto School
- Loreto Department
- Loreto Municipality (disambiguation)
- Loretto (disambiguation)
- Litany of Loreto
- Notre Dame de Lorette, the name of a ridge, basilica, and French national cemetery northwest of Arras at the village of Ablain-Saint-Nazaire
- Sisters of Loreto, a women's Catholic religious order founded by an Englishwoman, Mary Ward, in 1609
- Basilica della Santa Casa, Holy House of Loreto
This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Loreto.
If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.
If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.