Loreto - Piazza della Madonna with façade of the Basilica
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CholaBSP, on March 23, 2009, said:
Лорето – крошечный городок в области Марке, на адриатическом побережье. Он стоит на высокой горе, и его базилика господствует над окружающей довольно пустынной территорией. Кроме этой базилики и городка на километры вокруг ничего нет, город и местность существуют ради нее, а до нее здесь ничего не было.
Перед базиликой (Сантуарий Святого Дома), раскинулась большая площадь с фонтаном (1604-1614) . Его создали известный художник К. Мадерна и его дядя Дж. Фонтана. Бронзовые изваяния орлов, драконов, тритонов и дельфинов выполнилиТарквинои П. Джакометти в 1622 г.
В итальянском городе Лорето уже более семисот лет находится Santa Casa – дом Девы Марии в Назарете, в котором Богоматерь прожила почти всю жизнь и который был свидетелем нескольких важнейших событий христианской истории – Непорочного зачатия, Благовещения и Воплощения. Санктуарий в Лорето – пример того, как христианская реликвия стала градообразующим фактором, и таковым она является до сих пор.
CholaBSP, on March 23, 2009, said:
The main attraction of Loreto is, however, the Holy House itself (in Italian, the Santa Casa di Loreto), a well-known Catholic place of pilgrimage since at least the 14th century and a popular tourist destination for non-Catholics as well.
It is a plain stone building, 8.5 m (28 ft) by 3.8 m (12 1/2 ft) and 4.1 m (13 1/2 ft) high; it has a door on the north side and a window on the west; and a niche contains a small black image of the Virgin and Child, in Lebanon cedar, and richly adorned with jewels. The statue was commissioned after a fire in the Casa Santa in 1921, and was crowned in the Vatican in 1922 by Pope Pius XI. Around the house is a tall marble screen designed by Bramante and executed under Popes Leo X, Clement VII and Paul III, by Andrea Sansovino, Girolamo Lombardo, Bandinelli, Guglielmo della Porta and others. The four sides represent the Annunciation, the Nativity, the Arrival of the Santa Casa at Loreto and the Nativity of the Virgin, respectively. The treasury contains a large variety of rich and curious votive offerings. The architectural design is finer than the details of the sculpture. The apse is decorated with 19th century German frescoes, which appear to some as out of place.
The history of the house dates from at least the close of the crusading period. It is briefly referred to in the Italia Illustrata of Flavius Blondus, secretary to Popes Eugene IV, Nicholas V, Calixtus III and Pius II; it is to be read in all its fullness in the Redemptoris mundi Matris Ecclesiae Lauretana historia, by a certain Teremannus, contained in the Opera Omnia (1576) of Baptista Mantuanus.