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Extract from the Mandamdhos Travel Guides:
The main highway south from Kli and Kpi leads to the capital through
MANDAMDHOS
. This attractive inland village is famous for its pottery, including the Ali Baba-style
pithria
(olive oil urns) seen throughout Lsvos, but more so for the "black" icon of the Archangel Michael, whose enormous
monastery of Taxirhis
(daily: summer 6am-10pm; winter 6.30am-7pm), in a valley just northeast, is the powerful focus of a thriving cult. The image - supposedly made from a mixture of mud and the blood of monks slaughtered in a massacre - is really more idol than icon, both in its lumpy three-dimensional...
read the whole Mandamdhos Travel Guides...
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