Zvonkohra Lorety / Loreta Carillon (Prague)
N 50° 05.355 E 014° 23.491
33U E 456472 N 5548731
The beautiful bell-tower of famous Prague's Baroque pilgrimage site, Loreto, houses a carillon of 30 bells. The Loreto carillon has been playing every hour since August 1695, so if you visit Loreto in proper time, you will hear its great sound too...
Waymark Code: WM8APM
Location: Hlavní město Praha, Czechia
Date Posted: 03/02/2010
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The famous Prague carillon on the bell-tower is one of the most interesting parts of Loreta Baroque pilgrimage site. The first time the Loreto bells rang in Prague on 15 August 1695. The author of all thirty bells was Claudy Fremy (Dutch bellfounder from Amsterdam), who made them for Eberhard von Glauchau, the rich merchant from the Lesser Town of Prague.
You can hear the bells of Loreto carillon every hour thanks pantomusos mechanism in the bell-tower, so you can hear various melodies. The Loreto carillon can be controlled also by two and half octave keyboard on which various compositions are played during church holidays.
The Prague Loreto complex (Capucine monastery with palace, church, chaples and Holy Hut) is an artistic and historical monument, as well as a Baroque pilgrimage site the renown of which in the city can perhaps be compared only with that of the wonder-working statue of the Infant of Prague. Construction of the Prague Loreto Santa Casa began in June 1626, at the instigation of Baroness Benigna Katharina of Lobkowitz. The Loreto arose gradually over the course of the 17th and 18th centuries; the interiors were partly renovated in the 19th century; and in the 1950s and 1960s, a new treasury was built, accessible to the public.