In a busy cicada area, it's estimated there are one-and-a-half million cicada nymphs per acre.
The second level is less decorated but offers surprising courtyards, more galleries and an infinity of nymphs.
Six to eight weeks later, the eggs hatch and the nymphs will burrow into the ground, not to be seen for 17 more years.
This is the period of time that the cicada nymphs remain underground, feeding on sap from tree roots until their biological alarm-clocks go off.
Seek out a manicured corner of Florence's most beautiful green space, breathe in the scent of citrus trees and sigh among statues of bathing nymphs.
With them came stories collected on their travels: tales of goblins and giants, fairy queens and woodland nymphs, unearthly phantoms, man-eating ogres and predatory ghouls.
Meeker and I head over in the early afternoon and hit the White's winking riffles and the deep green pools with nymphs, streamers and dry flies.
The inexorable progress of the Enlightenment, though it has sent devils packing and committed nymphs and sprites to the realms of silliness, has never managed to stamp out angels.
With light rain as my only company, I walked through Paris until I reached the famous pyramid, splashed with water nymphs in the form of diamond-coloured drops, surrounded by Japanese tourists holding candy-coloured umbrellas.
When Turkey's prime minister visited the city last year, the local mayor, who belongs to Mr Erdogan's mildly Islamist Justice and Development (AK) party, sought to avoid his ire by ordering the removal of a public fountain featuring bare-breasted nymphs.
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The southern mountains are dotted with tiny traditional villages, fantastic spots to buy hearty local olive oil and thyme honey, though Azogires has a freshwater lagoon where the itinerant nereids - those beguiling sea-nymphs of ancient Greek myth - can allegedly steal a man's soul on one sacred night each year.
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