Loretto

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Loretto

A silver altar and statue

Lorentanske namesti
Prague 11908
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Opposite the Cernin Palace is the Santa Casa, built between 1626 and 1631 by the architect G B Orsi, commissioned by Catherine of Lobkovic.Inside is a silver altar and a statue of Our Lady of Loretto, one of fifty identical shrines built in the Czech lands. The Loretto treasury, constructed in 1699, comprises many valuable objects from the 16th-18th centuries, and on the Church Tower is a clock that chimes out the hymn "We Greet Thee a Thousand Times" on the hour, every hour.

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