Magical places

Where are these magical places? The 9:30 group has written the texts.
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A. This is the story of a haunted house, located in a misterious city in the southern USA, whose ghostly legend dates back to 1832. Former owners, who were a very rich family, were told to kill their black slaves inside the house in a very cruel way.

After the death of this family, the house became a high school, then a music and fashionable dancing school and finally it was bought by a rich man who also died inside the house in strange circumstances.

The people who lived in the mansion, after the wealthy family left it,  said they used to hear strange noises, cries and groans at  night. This mansion became the center of rumours regarding strange events.

There were also rumours of a lost treasure circulating but nobody dared  to go in search of it.

Today the house has been restored  and it is a luxury apartments house for those who can afford them, but when restoring it there was found a cementery beneath the house. It is said the former owners used to bury their slaves there and the ghosts that appear nowadays are those people tortured and killed inside the house.

Ana

Natalia

Ángel

Blanca

                      

B. If you imagine an unreal and beautiful landscape, this is the right place. We have chosen it because it’s like being into a tale due to its several waterfalls and the beauty of the rock formations carved by the falling water, and as a consequence of this, numerous cold, blue and crystal pools are created where you can swim and even see the bottom if you are brave enough.

These famous pools entice visitors from all over the world. It is a good place to take some lovely photos; this really is an enchanting spot.  

You can follow the gravel path and you can see the first waterfall with the highest fall and the deepest pool. The next pool up is properly the most famous.  It features a natural arch, offering a beautiful view.

There is a legend that says that in this place inhabit good and evil fairies so if you like hiking and you come there, you might see them!

In our opinion, if you want discover a magical feel and enjoy with great views you cannot miss it, we are sure that if you visit it you will not regret it.

Ana

Alicia

Raquel Ana Belén

C. This magical place is located in Europe, in a mountain range where the highest mountaintop of this land can be found. It is known as the most spectacular mountain in the country.

It is placed close to a town steeped in culture and local history, where more than half of its population speaks the language of King Arthur and Merlin.

This green region, due to the heavy rainfalls, hides wonderful legends in its valleys and mountains.

The most popular explanation for the name of this place talks about a giant warrior poet and his chair. It is said that the giant used to sit in this mountain, as it was his own armchair, to gaze the stars.  Landscape features of the mountain are attributed to the actions of our Giant: for example, some huge boulders at the side of the mountain are said to be stones that our friend shook out of his shoes. The local elderly say that anyone who sleeps on the mountain will awaken either a madman, a bard or indeed never wakes again.

It is said too, there was a giant king in those lands who used to shave and collect the beards of his enemies. Once he demanded the beard of King Arthur, who challenged him to a duel. R____ the Giant was killed by Arthur and was buried at the highest peak in this area. From then on it is called G_______ R____, known in English as S_______.

At the base of this mountain is the ancient fortress of D_____ E_____. According to legend, King V_________ sought refuge in The E____ Mountains and started to build his fort. But every time the workers began to build, the foundations fell. The King gathered all the magicians of the Court who told him that the fort could only be finished if an orphan was sacrificed. Legend has it that Merlin was this boy. He was taken to the palace to be killed, but he challenged the magicians telling them that the King was the real cause of their failure. What really happened was that there was an underground lake in which every night a white dragon fought against a red dragon. The red dragon represents the Celts and the white dragon represents the Saxons. Every night the white dragon beat the red one, and this is what would happen in the future: Saxons would beat and would dominate the island.

And so happened. Thousands of Celts had to leave the island in the hands of the English invaders and part of them even had to cross the sea to Britain, Asturias and Galicia. The Celtic language and culture nearly disappeared, but the red dragon spirit remains nowadays.

Luz

Paola

Maca

Teresa

D. Those that live here have a theory about how the hills came to be: once upon a time, a giant fell in love with a village girl.  The giant kidnapped the girl, but she died en route.  The giant’s tears solidified in this particular area.

This extraordinary area is formed by mounds of a generally cone-shaped and and they are almost symmetrical.  There are between 1,268  and 1,776 mounds, these cone-shaped or dome-shaped hills are actually made of grass-covered limestone.  The domes vary in size,  from 30 to 50 metres high, with the largest being 120 metres in height. Geologists have not reached consensus on how they were formed, but the most popular theory suggests that these mounds were lifted up from the seafloor of coral deposits and the action of rainwater and erosion.

The grass that covers each hill turns chocolate-brown during the summer season.

Rosa

Eduardo

Olga