The Shack, The Valley Inn, and the Pine Cone Motel are also places of temporary residence in town.

Cassero Senese, also known as Episcopal Palace, was built in the first half of the 13th century, as a place of temporary residence for bishops of the Diocese of Grosseto.

Mr. Wiersing, who is a West German, said the "correct" word for the Asians is "evacuees," since, as foreigners fleeing a place of temporary residence, they did not meet the United Nations' definition of a "refugee" as somebody escaping from a "well-founded fear of persecution" in their native lands.