Turn right, and first left up the stairs to the Book Market (Sahaflar Çar"ısı), a shady retreat and popular place for university folk.

Just beyond the plaza is the Cuale River, and in its center, a shady retreat - an island, found between the two traffic bridges.

In summer, sprinkled with ponds and refreshment stalls, it is a cool and shady retreat from the nearby bustling streets.

But at 12 feet from floor to ceiling, this shady retreat about 15 feet above the ground is an outlaw structure under the building code of this well-heeled Bergen County town.

Small groves of trees that might have once been pleasant, shady retreats, were now tangled and overgrown with brambles.

And to give a wonderful kind of shady retreat.

Nearly every chamber has its reservoir of running water at the door; on every side are gardens, delightful alleys, shady retreats, streams, fountains and grottoes.

Since summer heat fades only in the evening and light lingers relatively late, this cool shady retreat remains a local hot spot into the night.

J Map These gardens, laid out by the French during the colonial period, occupy the grounds of Kasbah des Oudaias and make a wonderful shady retreat.

An orchid, dangling close beside his head, opened slowly, unfolding its delicate petals to the warmth and light of the sun which but recently had penetrated to its shady retreat.