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
