Loreta. Prague Vintage is a photograph by Jenny Rainbow which was uploaded on September 23rd, 2018.
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Loreta. Prague Vintage
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Jenny Rainbow
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Loreta. Prague Vintage by Jenny Rainbow.
The legend says that Loreta (in Italian Santa Casa) was a house where St. Mary was living when the angel appeared to her. During the battles with Saracens (at the end of 13th century) this building was taken apart and transported over the Mediterranean Sea to Italy, to a small city called Loreto, where it was reconstructed. As you can imagine, it quickly became a popular pilgrimage site. The fame of Santa Casa reached its peak in the 16th century, when different renaissance copies of this building were built all across Europe. And that brings us to the story of Loreta in Prague.
Prague’s Loreta was built between 1626-1631. It took another forty years to build the surrounding cloisters, which were remodeled in the 18th century by probably the most famous baroque architect in Prague – Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer.
Source: http://www.absolutetours.com/blog/loreta/
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September 23rd, 2018
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