grotto
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Encyclopedic overview
18 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Antiquity
- Garden grottoes
- Renaissance and Mannerist grottoes
- Forms and decorative programs
- Baths, chapels, and theatrical uses
- Baroque and early landscape gardens
- Eighteenth‑century and Romantic grottoes
- Contemporary reinterpretations
- Religious grottoes
- Devotional uses
- Lourdes-inspired grottoes
- Large-scale devotional grottoes
- Cellars in Ticino
- Gallery
- See also
- Notes
- Further reading
thumb|Eternal Flame Falls in New York has an eternal flame inside a small grotto behind the falls thumb|Grutas de García in [[Nuevo León, Mexico]]
A grotto or grot is a natural or artificial cave or covered recess. Naturally occurring grottoes are typically small coastal caves associated with bodies of water and may be partially or fully submerged at high tide. Artificial grottoes have also been constructed as garden features, particularly in landscape design from the Renaissance onward. Well‑known natural examples include the Grotta Azzurra on Capri and the grotto at Tiberius’ Villa Jovis in the Bay of Naples.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “grotto” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.