Flowering vines like morning glory and trumpet vine also provide places for refuge.
Britain, a hoped-for place of refuge from a traumatic past, contracts to "a small gray rectangle of sky" glimpsed through a window.
Another girl, who left Iraq with her family after violence against Christians rose in her region, is shown waiting for hours for bimonthly food rations in Syria, at the time a place of refuge for Iraqis. .
Formerly a Byzantine stronghold known as Tephrike, it was in the mid-9th century a place of refuge for the Paulicians, who were persecuted for heresy by the Byzantine emperors but protected by the Arab caliphs.
THE house of God is, traditionally, a place of refuge for all.
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It will enable it to become a place of refuge for the weak," he said.
"After all, the circus has always been a place of refuge for outsiders".
A black upright piano in the building's courtyard serves as a place of refuge, for Elsa especially.
UNTIL the Serbs closed the border crossings this week, the safest place of refuge for persecuted ethnic Albanians was, not surprisingly, Albania itself.
