The Church of Loreto is located in the town of Mamoiada, distinguished by its mass and characteristic circular shape. The vault of the apse has important frescoes from the artistic point of view, with the representation of the long journey made by the Holy House of Nazareth, the latter is inhabited by Mary and transported by angels,as conveyed by tradition, between 1291 and 1294, first from Israel to Dalmatia, then to Recanati, and finally to the Marche region where the town of Loreto arose. The church which is dedicated to Our Lady of Loreto is very old , almost certainly it was restored in the early 19th century,this is documented by a Latin epigraph placed at one side of the wide presbytery. Reverend Alberto Maria Solinas Nurra, Carmelite, who at that time was bishop of Nuoro, accompanied by his secretary Don Antonio Cicu Pais, on September 9, 1804 “consecrated this temple at the request of the inhabitants of the village of Mamoiada.” The shrine of Loreto was surrounded, by four churches: St. Anthony, St. Francis, St. Basil, and St. Cross. Of the church of Sant’ Antonio Abate, or Sant’Antoni ‘e su ohu, which was regularly officiated until the 1950s, there is no stone left on stone. A statue of the saint is preserved in the parish, which, according to tradition, has a little pig at his feet. In the houses that overlooked the churchyard, lived,for a long time, the rector, who, moving in 1927 to the present rectory, left them to the deputy parish priest. Today the land that included, church, house and courtyard, has been divided into different properties.
