Chiesa Santa Maria Corteorlandini

This guide to Chiesa Santa Maria Corteorlandini in Lucca asks why eight days of hard travel to Loreto, past bandits and at a cost most Lucchesi could not afford, led one order of clerics to build the pilgrimage instead of the road. It follows the exact replica of the Holy House of Loreto they raised behind a plain side door around sixteen hundred, and the single brick locals claim crossed the mountains from the original. Step through the plain door on the left side of the nave to see the dark-faced Madonna venerated inside.