Experts' Choice Award Loreta Praha
4 expert reviews
“Built as part of a calculated plan to reconvert the masses to Catholicism after the Thirty Years' War, the Loreto is probably the most outlandish Baroque fantasy you'll see in Prague.”
– Time Out
Fodor's "The graceful façade, with its voluptuous tower, was built in 1720 by the ubiquitous Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer, the architect of the two St. Nicholas churches in Prague."
Frommer's "Loreto Palace was named after the town of Loreto, Italy, where the dwelling of the Virgin Mary was said to have been brought by angels from Palestine in the 13th century." Full review
Lonely PlanetTop choice
"The Loreta is a baroque place of pilgrimage founded by Benigna Kateřina Lobkowicz in 1626, designed as a replica of the supposed Santa Casa." Full review
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Loretanske namisti 7/100, Praha 1 - Hradcany, Prague 118 00, Czech Republic
