Grottos. There's the famous Blue Grotto on the island of Capri. There are the Yungang Grottos in Shanxi. And the Grotta dello Smeraldo on the Amalfi Coast. But those all stink! It's the Snow White Grotto you want! With its sculptures of Snow White and her pals, the Sieben Zwerge. Not to mention some woodland chums who will use their butts to help clean a dusty cottage.One of the things I am impressed by is that the characters are all "on model", truly looking like they did in the 1937 movie; so often you'll see things like this that are just a bit "off". But the Italian sculptor did it right, each Dwarf is spot-on. For decades there was a story going around (promoted by Disney) that the sculptures were a gift from a particular sculptor (named Leonida Parma); he just sent them, out of the blue! I can't remember the author (possibly Todd James Pierce?) who located an actual order slip for the sculptures (presumably in the Archives). Another Disneyland legend debunked!
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