CONFLICT IN STRAVAGANZA CITY OF SECRETS SERIES

The books are set alternatively between Islington, an area of London, England, and various cities in Talia, an alternate version of Renaissance Italy.

CONFLICT IN STRAVAGANZA CITY OF SECRETS SERIES

Stravaganza is a series of novels written by children's author Mary Hoffman. For Vivaldi's series of violin concertos, see La stravaganza. Also if you are around 181 there’s a fantastic Irish bar called Le Cheile that has this very whimsical feel and a great cider and beer selection.This article is about the novel series. It’s relatively safe so you can be fine alone but you should be able to pick up weird vibes if something too strange is afoot. There are a lot of strange liminal spaces there. You have a lot of walkways that descend into stone tunnels that are super dark in the middle. You would have old stone stairs leading down into an overgrown growth of vines that grows into a forest by the foot of the stairs.

There are parts of the park that are super mysterious and can get creepy. It’s a medieval museum apart of the MET that does wine tastings in the summer and hosts a renaissance fair. It’s well known for the Cloisters which is a kind of castle built from old pieces of old monasteries from Europe. It faces the river and has a lot of rocky mountainous cliffs and hills and old stone bridges, walls and structures. The park is a long park on the north west side of Manhattan’s island and is gorgeous. It has a very french style to it (montclair has a large french community).įort Tyron Park- basically 181 off the A and above. There are wild bunnies that run across the garden too.

Oh yeah and there is the Van Vleck house which is a mansion with beautiful gardens open to the public. Eagle Rock can be a little sketchy so check it out with a friend but overall its a cool place. Other than downtown Montclair has a lot of beautiful parks and a really nice reservation called Eagle Rock. If you are vegetarian/vegan there is a great vegan restaurant on that same street (Church ave where Blu Lotus is) and there is a smoothie acai bowl shop on that street too for dessert. That’s like their specialty don’t get anything else haha. If you want to hang around Bloomfield Ave in downtown Montclair I’d suggest for lunch go to Raymonds which is a super cute classic Americana restaurant that sells great Egg Creams and Burgers. There’s a new magic tool and spiritual shop further down bloomfield ave called Mystic Spirit Metaphysical Shoppe. There is an incredible crystal shop also on Bloomfield Ave called Rocky’s Crystals & Minerals. There is also Parcel further up bloomfield ave that sells really nice stationary and has an Amelie, whimsical faerie-like feel. There are more magical stores up and down bloomfield ave which is where the downtown stores are centered around. There are a lot of magical shops there too like Blu Lotus that sells a lot of magical tools and items and is beautiful. (Clifton Gates I don’t think it’s protected at all)įor towns there are a few that are nice. Halfass meaning it has a cheap metal chain fence around it but police might be snooping around so you want to be careful because I am assuming that for the hospital you could be trespassing if you enter anyway. Also like mentioned above if you do go- I think at least for Greystone it’s a halfass protected historical site. Its like they had to evacuate one day and never cleaned up anything). My friends said that they still have medical records and everything in tact. (btw the asylum was called Greystone Psychiatric Hospital in case you are interested lol. I think it’s cool to know about The Gates of Hell but I am giving you a long ass disclaimer about going there haha. Like aside from being very empathetic and probably feeling the trauma the ghosts went through their waking lives there, I am moreso always concerned about living people and what they’re capable of. A lot of kids in my school knew about weird haunted abandoned places in NJ like there is an abandoned asylum that still has electric chairs intact and an abandoned mansion but the stories they told always sounded really creepy and really dangerous. I would suggest you go with someone and be armed or something but also this is totally a bad idea and like how horror films start. It’s like a series of storm drains and there has been cults doing weird magic inside. Like if the NJ devil is real he would be chillin here. A lot of kids from my high school would come here for the thrill but would leave kind of disturbed.

I’m just letting you know about it since you asked but its like. Clifton’s Gates of Hell-I’m not far from Clifton but this place is incredibly dangerous.

Conflict in stravaganza city of secrets