{"id":8644,"count":5,"description":"Loretto is a borough in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is officially part of the Johnstown, Pennsylvania Metropolitan Statistical Area as recognized by the US Census Bureau, but local sources list it as part of the Altoona, Pennsylvania area due to its proximity to Altoona.\nLoretto is located at 40\u00b030\u203223\u2033N 78\u00b038\u203210\u2033W\ufeff \/ \ufeff40.50639\u00b0N 78.63611\u00b0W\ufeff \/ 40.50639; -78.63611 (40.506355, -78.636066).\nAccording to the United States Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of 1.0 square mile (2.6\u00a0km), all of it land.\nLoretto is home to Saint Francis University, an institute of higher learning with an enrollment of 2,210.\nLoretto was founded in 1799 by Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin as the first English-speaking Roman Catholic settlement west of the Allegheny Front. He named it after the town of Loreto, Italy, site of a Catholic place of pilgrimage. Loretto was built adjoining the original settlement founded by Captain Michael McGuire, a Revolutionary War veteran, in 1788. In his...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/loretto\/","name":"Loretto","slug":"loretto","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/8644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=8644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}