Both these paintings share a similar formal structure that consists of an open landscape that is seen beyond and through the opening of a dark grotto.

They concluded that the grotto is actually a nymphaeum or underground triclinium from Neronian times.

* The Stalactic grotto of Antiparos ( Aegean Sea ) is discovered.

Troll Church ) is a marble grotto leading up to an underground waterfall.

The grotto is situated 30 minutes outside Molde, followed by a 1 hour hike up a steep trail.

The grotto now lies beneath Radnor House Independent Co-ed School, and is occasionally opened to the public.

The Cosquer cave is an underwater grotto in the Calanque de Morgiou, underwater, that was inhabited during Paleolithic era, when the sea level was much lower than today.

A grotto on the top of Mount Carmel is known as the " Cave of Elijah ", traditionally linked to the Prophet Elijah and his apprentice, Elisha.

Afqa is the sacred source where the waters of the river emerge from a huge grotto in a cliff 200 meters high.

The grotto is closed and the Bishop of Tarbes ( Charles Waldron ) declares that unless the Emperor orders the grotto to be opened, there will be no investigation by the church.

In the film it is Dutour who is dying of cancer of the larynx at the end, and who goes to the Lourdes shrine, kneels at the gates to the grotto and says, " Pray for me, Bernadette.

On the shores of the lake is the grotto of the Cumaean Sybil and the entrance to a long tunnel ( Grotta di Cocceio, ca.

The church is built on rising ground and fronted by a sunken grotto.

According to the testimony of Bernadette Soubirous, the Virgin Mary spoke to her ( Lourdes, 25 March 1858 ) in Gascon saying: Que sòi era Immaculada Concepciou (" I am the Immaculate Conception ", the phrase is reproduced under this statue in the Lourdes grotto with a non-standard spelling ), confirming the proclamation of this Catholic dogma four years earlier.

T. S. Eliot's seminal poem of cultural disintegration The Waste Land is prefaced by a verbatim quotation out of Trimalchio's account of visiting the Cumaean Sibyl, a supposedly immortal prophetess whose counsel was once sought on all matters of grave importance, but whose grotto by Neronian times had become just another site of local interest along with all the usual Mediterranean tourist traps:

At the end of the garden is a grotto guarded by two life-sized statues of Roman soldiers.

The village of Crupet is noted for its grotto dedicated to Saint Anthony of Padua, the Château de Crupet, a moated medieval donjon, and its windmills.

On the northern aspect of this rock, near the riverbank, is a naturally occurring, irregularly shaped shallow cave or grotto, in which the apparitions of 1858 took place.

The spring water from the grotto is believed by some to possess healing properties.

The church is about a 10-minute walk from the basilica and the grotto, on a street named in honour of Ukraine, 8 Rue de l ' Ukraine, situated on a narrow piece of property close to the railroad station.

It is 5 km SE of the Buddhist temple Wat Tham Phu Wa which features a series of grotto shrines within a large limestone cave system.

The world's oldest known portrait was found in 2006 in the Vilhonneur grotto near Angoulême and is thought to be 27, 000 years old.

Hang Đầu Gỗ ( Wooden stakes cave ) is the largest grotto in the Hạ Long area.

William Kent also added a cascade ( a symbolic grotto ), inspired by the upper cascade of the gardens of the Villa Aldobrandini.

William Kent's cascade was derived from Italian sources and apart from being a waterfall was a symbolic grotto

After a second plunge further into the depths of an underground grotto, guests behold the skeletal remains of an unfortunate band of pirates, guarding their loot and treasure with macabre delight.

Inside, the Blue Bayou has been replaced by Pirate's Cove and into a short grotto with Blackbeard, skeletons of dead pirates, the hurricane lagoon, and an echoing " Dead men tell no tales ".

They emerge into the grotto scenes, passing all the skeleton pirate vintages seen at Disneyland, and a new shipwreck scene.

The walls of the grotto are decorated with 19 panels by Giovan Filippo Criscuolo ( 1531 ) into carved and gilded frames with small pilasters.

To enter the low opening to the grotto, the tourist transfers from the motorized boat that brought him or her from the port into a small wooden rowboat manned by one of the oarsmen who specialize in ferrying travellers into the cave.

At the great Roman sanctuary of Praeneste south of Rome, the oldest portion of the primitive sanctuary was situated on the next-to-lowest terrace, in a grotto in the natural rock where there was a spring that developed into a well.

The grotto, the largest in the UK, is a series of chambers extending over 65 ft into the chalk hillside.

The crusader section houses a church, including a grotto where a window into the ground below allows viewing of the spot where the tree from which the cross was ( reputedly ) fashioned grew.

The oldest portion of the primitive sanctuary was situated on the terrace just above the lowest one, in a grotto in the natural rock where there was a spring that developed into a well.

The basic layout of the grotto includes an arched entrance which leads into a rectangular antechamber and then a narrow corridor, which is lined with bas-reliefs, and then finally leads into the main rotunda.

The wooden superstructure built over the antechamber remains a subject for debate for many historians who believe Seokguram originally did not have such a structure blocking the view of the sunrise over the ocean, and cutting off the air flow into the grotto.

He hides his journal in a Virgin Mary grotto outside the castle and descends into the crypts, where he finds Dracula and the unnamed vampire woman resting in their coffins.

To the south of the mansion there is the grotto garden where a waterfall passes over a rocky cave into a pool below.

Nelson transformed the previously empty basement passages beneath the mansion that lead to a grotto into a major private art gallery.

Also at the rear of the grotto is a metal box into which written prayers or petitions may be deposited ; they are collected daily and burnt.

There are several falls, but they are mainly divided into the upper and lower with a small grotto in between.

At the Palazzo del Quirinale, the water flows from a hilltop spring ( once abundant, now only sufficient to play the organ for about 30 minutes at a time ), coursing through the palace itself into a stabilizing ‘ room ’ some 18 metres above the camera aeolis in the organ grotto.

He was lowered into a tomb that had been prepared following the transfer of Blessed Pope John XXIII's remains from the grotto to the main floor of the basilica after his beatification.

A grotto, where natural water-filled caves stretch back over twelve feet into the hillside, is located across the pool from the island.

In the 1820s, a grotto pavilion, attributed to Andreas Schlüter and Georg Johann Mattarnovy, was rebuilt into a coffee house.

The production included state-of-the-art special effects, including a " transformation scene " that converted a rocky grotto into a fairyland throne room in full view of the audience.