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Grotto

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grotto
1. a small cave, esp one with attractive features
2. a construction in the form of a cave, esp as in landscaped gardens during the 18th century
grotto
A natural or artificial cave, often decorated with shells or stones and incorporating waterfalls or fountains.
Grotto 

in architecture, a type of park structure (sometimes a pavilion) designed to resemble a natural cave and built and finished with material such as seashells, tuff, and sea rocks. Grottoes were particularly popular in garden and park architecture of the 17th and 18th centuries (in Russia, from the 18th century).
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And thus the wonderful Blue Grotto is suggested to me.
The Innocents Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
We passed the night in a grotto hollowed in the snow, which afforded us but poor shelter, and I was ill all night.
A Tramp Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
Anyhow, she left it almost finished in the Grotto of the Calvary at the Capuccini Hotel at Amalfi while she went for a little ink.
A Room With A View by Forster, E. M. View in context
 
 
 
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