| In the Renaissance garden, elemental forces of nature were represented by fountains, statuary, and artificial grottoes. |
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| And why should we live in boring, utilitarian spaces when we could live in grottoes and crooked caverns? |
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| The numerous caves and grottoes were long occupied by Palaeolithic peoples. |
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| Hansen spent his summers exploring the grottoes and caves along the coastline, surfing its waves, and playing in the forests on San Simeon Point. |
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| There Wright filled the grounds with follies, grottoes, and garden buildings in the rustic, Gothic, and Palladian styles. |
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| You can believe it if you want as you wander through gilt throne rooms and baroque bedrooms, romantic grottoes and misty gardens. |
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| Towards the end of the eighteenth century a picturesque rock landscape with a cascade, grottoes and a hermit's cave was constructed. |
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| This palace had underground rooms or grottoes with wall paintings depicting elaborately swirled and bizarre floral and figural motifs. |
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| A gazebo, garden seats, the grottoes and the waterside plantings will convey the exuberance of the Victorian garden. |
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| The cats were getting their own places, too, a savanna for the lions and grottoes with pools for the panthers and tigers. |
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| In underwater grottoes, hollowed out of the island's jagged rock-face, we discover swarms of good-sized lobster and shrimp. |
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| Paths made from mosaic pebbles and broken paving stones will wind through forest glades, leading the visitor to secret places and moonlit grottoes. |
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| It contains photographs about going underground, into the earth, into caves and grottoes, photographs about the mystery of darkness. |
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| In gardening, designers turned their backs on Italianate fountains and grottoes and on the stiff French parterres, long vistas and avenues beloved of Stuart kings. |
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| However the fact that these two shadow-box grottoes were made by mature women suggests that shellwork was an amusing pastime for women of education and wealth. |
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| There he created the landscaped garden with temples, statues, grottoes, glades and a series of urns, columns, monoliths and headstones, many of them inscribed. |
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| At his suggestion we go diving in the blue grottoes offshore. |
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| They den in tree cavities, grottoes or rock crevices on cliffs, and cave ledges. |
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| If scuba diving appeals, you'll find the Adriatic sea floor is littered with wrecks where exotic fish swim in coral reefs and colourful underwater gardens and grottoes. |
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| The garden also features a gazebo, garden seats and grottoes. |
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| Since spring of 2004, the caves and grottoes in the cliff face are abandoned and empty. |
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| Human habitation is also confirmed by the discovery of three sepulchral grottoes. |
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| Where they did survive, many great eighteenth-century grottoes gradually slid into ruin, like the parks in which they stood or the houses they once served. |
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| A glance at architectural history shows how grottoes and underground spaces were used for cultic or aesthetic and cultural purposes. |
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| Until the mid-1st century ad, these were used almost exclusively in fountains and nymphaea, or grottoes, which acted as cool retreats and so had a place in almost every villa. |
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| A virtual kaleidoscope of colour inundate not only the standing piles, but also overrun old fallen timbers that overlap, forming small overhangs and grottoes. |
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| Turkey is also blessed with majestic mountains and valleys, lakes, rivers, waterfalls and grottoes perfect for winter and summer tourism and sports of all kinds. |
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| Some claim it projects a powerful tellurian emanation, an eerie spiritual magnetism that once caused astral cults to gravitate to its grottoes and caves. |
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| Over thousands of years the tumbling waters of the young Aare gradually eroded a passage by rushing and gurgling their way ever deeper into the rock until the present gorge with its niches, grottoes and hollows was formed. |
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| The enfilade of modestly proportioned rooms expresses the purpose of this earthly paradise as well as its design. Qianlong's garden boasted 27 pavilions, set in a landscape of rock grottoes. |
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| You just have to see elegant Corfu, green Zakynthos, Ithaca, the legendary home of Ulysses, Paxi, Lefkada, and Kefalonia with its wonderful sand beaches and unexplored grottoes. |
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| Another short stop is at Xcaret, a vast complex of re-created Maya altars, temples and grottoes, a botanical garden and a snorkeling channel. |
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| It first refers, as you know, to paintings seen in grottoes or the basements of ancient buildings in which there were murals that represented animals and human figures that were seen as being somehow distorted or exaggerated. |
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| The word is derived from the Italian grotteschi, referring to the grottoes in which these decorations were found c. 1500 during the excavation of Roman houses such as the Golden House of Nero. |
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| And where were their children born, where could they put them when one of their women gave birth if not in their grottoes, if not in one of their mangers? |
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| Under a collaborative agreement with China's State Administration of Cultural Heritage, the Getty Conservation Institute has been working with the Dunhuang Academy since 1989 on conservation at these grottoes. |
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| The only clear examples are Salzburg, in honour of Mozart, or Mount Taishan in China, for its definitive influence on Chinese painting, or the grottoes of Mogao, also in China. |
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| A snorkeler's heaven, the thick barrier reef of endangered elkhorn coral has extraordinary formations, deep grottoes, abundant reef fishes, and waving sea fans. |
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| Grottoes to the Virgin Mary or a patron saint are found on school campuses. |
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