Michael Paterniti

Drake's home is its own fantasia, a single-level ranch that sprawls in various wings over 7,500 square feet, from the game room to the gym to Drake's master bedroom with Jacuzzi. The pool is like a scene out of Waterworld, with a bar inside a grotto, waterfalls, and a slide that drops thirty feet through the rock.

American Writer

Paulo Coelho

I have spent every New Year's Eve since 1992 in Lourdes. I spend the hour of my birth every year in the grotto. It's a place with meaning for me.

Brazilian Novelist

Usually refers to a natural or outdoor cave-like space, often associated with beauty or mystery.

Natural Setting

Can be artificially created as a picturesque or quaint attraction in gardens and parks.

Man-Made Feature

Often serves as a shrine or sacred place in religious contexts, especially in Christianity.

Religious Significance

 I saw forests and meadows. I saw grottoes and secret gardens and places I'd love to hide as a kid, if I could only breathe underwater. And best of all, I saw the animals. I saw a manta ray that looked as big as the plane I was flying in.

Jim Toomey: Learning...

 species of reef fish mollusks sea stars and other creatures inhabit coral reefs the reef system spiny grottoes offer refuge and feeding grounds for a variety of aquatic life in spring this Caribbean

Grotto