Loreto is Italian for laurel-wood. A town in Italy named Loreto holds an important Christian shrine, which led to the spread of the name to many countries. It may refer to:
Places
Argentina
Bolivia
Brazil
Ecuador
- Loreto Canton, in the province of Orellana
Italy
- Loreto, Marche, home of the Basilica della Santa Casa after which the other shrines are named
- Loreto Aprutino, Pescara
Mexico
Paraguay
- Loreto, Concepción department
Peru
Philippines
Switzerland
- Loreto, Switzerland, a district of Lugano
Other
- Loreto (meteorite), found in 1896 in Baja California Sur, Mexico
- Loreto (Milan Metro), a subway station on the Line 1 of Milan Metro
- Nicolás del Campo (full name "Nicolás Francisco Cristóbal del Campo, Marquis of Loreto", 1725–1803), sometimes referred to as "Viceroy Loreto"
People
- Loreto Carbonell (1933-2017), Filipino basketball player
- Loreto Cucchiarelli (born 1943), Italian former rugby union player now serving as a coach
- Loreto Di Franco (1578–1638), Roman Catholic prelate
- Loreto Garza (born 1962), former American boxer and light welterweight world champion
- Loreto Silva (born 1964), Chilean deputy minister
See also
- Loreta (disambiguation)
- Loreto College (disambiguation), list of schools named Loreto College or Loreto School
- Loreto Department
- Loreto Municipality (disambiguation)
- Loretto (disambiguation)
- Litany of Loreto
- Notre Dame de Lorette, the name of a ridge, basilica, and French national cemetery northwest of Arras at the village of Ablain-Saint-Nazaire
- Sisters of Loreto, a women's Catholic religious order founded by an Englishwoman, Mary Ward, in 1609
- Basilica della Santa Casa, Holy House of Loreto
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