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Ave Maria Grotto


Name: Ave Maria Grotto
Category: Cultural
Archive ID#: AL3134
 
Description: Located in an old quarry, now the grounds of St. Bernard Abbey, this is a garden of miniature replicas of churches all over the world, executed in great detail, and landscaped into the rock. Largely the work of Brother Joseph Zoetl, who labored at the site almost without interruption from 1932 to 1961. On the National Register of Historic Places.
Location: 50 miles N of Birmingham, in Cullman
(POINT(-86.81392 34.174389))
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Address: AL
Cullman County
Visitor Info: 1600 St. Bernard Drive SE, Cullman 35055     
Just east of Cullman on US 278     
Open 7 am - dusk, every day except Christmas.
Links: http://www.avemariagrotto.com/
LCS: Architectural Landmark, Cultural, Model Landscape
   
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