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The Via Lauretana Assisi-Loreto Way was born from the idea of reviving the pilgrimage route which, in the Middle Ages, guaranteed the mobility of people and things along the route that connected Rome to the Sanctuary of the Holy House of Loreto.
A long path that crossed the entire Papal State and which returned to assume a certain importance when, in 1587, Pope Gregory XIII decided to improve its practicability and intensify its traffic; as indirectly reported by Michel de Montaigne in his Jourlan de voyage en Italie, the story of his journey to the Vatican State through the Via Lauretana.
The route, starting from the fourteenth-century gate of San Pietro in Assisi, then continues on the Network of the Lauretani Paths (the Via Lauretana integrated by the other places in Marche region devoted the cult of the Beata Vergine di Maria of Loreto), crossing a dense weaving of territorial, historical, cultural, environmental, architectural and artistic values connected, one to the other, by the passage of time.
A rich testimony of the past but also a strong identity element of the territory and a precious resource in a perspective of sustainable development.
Source: https://www.turismo.beniculturali.it/cammini/via-lauretana-assisi-loreto/