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Grotto Bay is a coastal private property [2] in West Coast District Municipality in the Western Cape province of South Africa. It was declared a nature reserve in 2002. [ 2 ] Covering about 378,000 hectares (934,058.342 acres or 3,780 square kilometers or 1,459.46616 square miles ) is located 45 minutes from Cape Town. [ 2 ] "
The word grotto comes from Italian grotta, Vulgar Latin grupta, and Latin crypta ("a crypt"). [2] It is also related by a historical accident to the word grotesque.In the late 15th century, Romans accidentally unearthed Nero's Domus Aurea on the Palatine Hill, a series of rooms, decorated with designs of garlands, slender architectural framework, foliage, and animals.
The Green Grotto Caves are show caves and a prominent tourist attraction on the north coast of Jamaica.Named for the green algae that cover its walls, [3] the structure of the cave is strikingly different from inland systems; the cave is a flank margin cave (old mixing chambers at the edge of the fresh water lens with the sea water) with two well-defined levels apparently indicating two ...
Grotto of the Nativity, fourteen-point silver star under the main altar marking the traditional spot of Jesus' birth. The Grotto of the Nativity, the place where Jesus is said to have been born, is an underground space which forms the crypt of the Church of the Nativity. It is situated underneath its main altar, and it is normally accessed by ...
The Grotto Sauna is a private sauna in Georgian Bay, Canada. [1] The building is 75 m 2 (810 sq ft) [2] and consists of a singular room with two benches and two stoves, a large window looking onto the bay and a skylight. A waterside grotto is a subterranean chamber that is chapped and smoothed by receding water currents. The sauna is based ...
Thunderball Grotto, a limestone cave situated on the western coast of Staniel cay, was the setting of the 1965 James Bond film Thunderball. It was from this film the name Thunderball was given to the grotto. [6] [7] [8] The island was also used as a filming location for a scene in the 1983 James Bond film Never Say Never Again.
The Grotto) is a sinkhole geological formation and tourist attraction, found on the Great Ocean Road outside Port Campbell in Victoria, Australia Wooden steps wind down the cliff face to the bottom, providing visibility of the sea beyond a pool at low tide.
Elizabeth Bay House is a heritage-listed Colonial Regency style house and now a museum and grotto, located at 7 Onslow Avenue in the inner eastern Sydney suburb of Elizabeth Bay in the City of Sydney local government area of New South Wales, Australia.