Loreto
Loreto is Italian for laurel-wood. 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
- Loreto, Ecuador, its capital.
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, a district in the Concepción Department.
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
Schools
- Loreto College, list of schools named Loreto College or Loreto School
Other
- 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"), sometimes referred to as "Viceroy Loreto"
See also
- Basilica della Santa Casa Holy House of Loreto
- Sisters of Loreto, a women's Catholic religious order founded by an Englishwoman, Mary Ward, in 1609
- 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
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