For more than three centuries, time in thisformer outskirts of Prague has been measuredby the bells hung in the slender onion-domedtower of Prague’s Loreto, known there just as‘The Loreta’. However its architectural andspiritual core is not this picturesque belfry butthe Holy House set in its courtyard, in a complexof galleries, arcades and chapels.Loretos, some of the best known places ofpilgrimage in the Christian world, were smallishhouses constructed as exact replicas of the“Holy House” (Santa Casa) in the Italian townof Loreto. It was believed that this was thehouse in which the Holy family had lived inNazareth and where the Archangel Gabriel hadforetold the birth of Jesus to the Virgin Mary…