Geographical Entry - Grotta Gigante

The Grotta Gigante is the biggest touristic cavity in the whole world. It is 280 meters long, 65 meters wide, and 107 meters high. The cave is part of the underground system of the Timavo, a very, very big underground river that starts in Slovenia. It is in the Comune of Sgonico, in the part called Borgo Grotta Gigante. The Grotta Gigante was inserted in the Guiness World Records in 1995, because it is the biggest touristic cavity of the world. Also, inside the Grotta Gigante there is the longest seismic pendulum of the world, that is used for measuring the movingof the Earth beause of the moon's influence. There are three entrances for the Grotta Gigante, but only two are used: one to enter and one to get out. The Grotta Gigante is a wonderful place, and its quite known for its beautiful palm stalagmites. It is also rich in stalagtites, and both stalagmites and stalagtites are very nice because there colours range from red to white. In the Grotta Gigante there are two charateristic festivities: “La Festa della Befana” on the 6th January and “ La Festa dei Turisti” on the 15th of August.

Wolf - Novel 9 Synopsis

By Gillian Crass
Cassy lives with her grandmother. She almost never sees her mother, and her grandmother does not like her niece, and since Cassy is influenced by her grandmother, she also thinks that her mother is a bit crazy and never does anything useful. One day, in the middle of the night, Cassy hears someone knock on the back door, and her grandmother lets him in. In the morning, her grandmother helps her pack her things and sends her to her mother's house, and Casy realizes that her sudden visits to her mother are related to the knocking on the back door in the middle of the night. When Cassy finally finds her mother's house, she discovers that her mother is now living with a man and a kid a few years older than her. They live by making money with shows for kids, and the next one will be on wolves. So, Cassy learns a lot on wolves, about their habits and their lives, and she begins to like them very much. A very stange thing that happens to her when she is in that house with her mother and her friends is that every night she dreams, a thing she has never done before. Also, a misterious figure is stalking Cassy and her friends, and she is quite afraid. The trouble really begins when Cassy discovers that her grandmother packed some explosive in her bag, and it culminates when she discovers her father is the Cray Hill bomber and is about to kill her and her grandmother, but her mother saves their lives.

Teatro Romano - Historical Entry

In the middle of the city of Trieste, between the Capitoline hill and Piazza dell'Unità d'Italia (Trieste's major square) and right in front of the police headquarters, there is a Roman theatre, that was erected by a certain Quinto Petronio Modesto, during the second half of the first century AD. Quinto PetronioModesto was the governor of Trieste under the emperor Trajan. The Roman theatre was uncovered between 1937 and 1939, during building works in that district of the city, and with it, modern and medieval housing was uncovered too. The Roman theatre is not really looked after really well, but it is worth a visit. It is mostly made of stone, although it is thought that the topmost portion of the amphiteatre steps and the stage were made of wood. The semicircle was once adorned by statues, that are now in the care of the city's History and Art Museum. Also, people think that the theatre was once situated just outside the city walls and it faced the sea.