Loreto Aprutino (Abruzzese: Lûrëtë) is a comune and town in the Province of Pescara in the Abruzzo region of central Italy.

The presence of necropoleis at Colle-Fiorano and at Farina-Cardito suggest that a significant pre-Roman settlement once existed near the modern town.

[3] The Italic Vestini, following their defeat by the Romans in the Social War, eventually built a town around the castellum and called it Lauretum, because of the many bay laurels (Latin laurus) that then grew in the area.

The town would be a stronghold of Swabian and Angevin nobility until the fourteenth century, when a series of great houses would rule Loreto and the surrounding countryside up to the abolition of feudalism: among others, the d'Aquino, the d'Avalos, the Caracciolo, as well as Margaret Habsburg, and Alessandro de' Medici.

Each spring on the first Monday after Pentecost, the city celebrates the Festa di San Zopito and a parade is held.