Santa Maria di Loreto - Roma, Italy
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N 41° 53.755 E 012° 29.016
33T E 291251 N 4641282
Santa Maria di Loreto is a Roman Catholic church located in Piazza della Madonna di Loreto, just in front of Trajan's Column, near the monument to Victor Emmanuel II in Rome, Italy.
Waymark Code: WM11009
Location: Lazio, Italy
Date Posted: 07/20/2019
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"Architect Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, added a campanile in the upper left corner of the church. It is a brick tower located between the left façade and the frontage of the confraternity headquarters, and has three undifferentiated storeys before the façade cornice. Each of these has a rectangular window in a stone frame. Then comes a course of stone before the fourth storey, which has a square window.
The actual bell-chamber is in the form of a two-storey limestone aedicule. The first storey is a cubical kiosk with an arched soundhole on each face, topped by a pediment with a broken cornice into which an oculus is intruded. The corners have projecting lugs in the form of silhouette volutes (no carved spirals). The second storey is a circular turret with four square soundholes, a cog-wheel cornice with four projections and finally a hemispherical lead cupola." (
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