“Dozens of families boarded a vintage steam train and went the short distance up the track to see Santa in his grotto.”

“Vines and flowers climbed the trellis, turning our nook into a subtle and intriguing grotto.”

“It's hardly a grotto at all, merely a kink in the shadowy, soot-darkened stone passageway.”

“Such garden grottos first became popular in Italy before spreading to England in the Tudor period.”

“Our guide Roberto skilfully navigated his boat into the various grottos lining the coast.”

“In addition to the gardens, there were two grottos with hidden, artificial lighting, that sheltered the new friendship, if not love, flourishing between David and Carrie.”

“In the Renaissance garden, elemental forces of nature were represented by fountains, statuary, and artificial grottoes.”

“There Wright filled the grounds with follies, grottoes, and garden buildings in the rustic, Gothic, and Palladian styles.”

“And why should we live in boring, utilitarian spaces when we could live in grottoes and crooked caverns?”