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Extract from the Soufl Travel Guides:
The nearest town to Dhadhi, 7km north of the side-turning and set among lush mulberry-groves, is
SOUFL
, renowned for a now all-but-vanished silk industry. The town's history as Greece's silk centre in Byzantine and Ottoman times and a fascinating explanation of the whole silk-making process are documented (with English text) in a
folk/silk museum
(daily except Tues: Easter to mid-Oct 10am-2pm & 5-7pm; rest of year 10am-4pm; ?1.20), a little way uphill and west of the main through road. It's lodged in a fine old yellow mansion, one of a number of surviving vernacular houses, including semi-ruined
bitziklk...
read the whole Soufl Travel Guides...
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