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Even though Phyti is not, it never was, near urban centres, nor in central transport arteries, it was since 1950, one of the first tourist centres of Paphos.
The few visitors that visited Cyprus usually visited archaeological places and Phyti too, even if it did not have ancient monuments. It had however something else. It had "PHYTIOTIKO PLOUMISTO".
Weaving art has its roots in the Homeric years. This art was familiar to Cyprus. All the dresses were made in the voufa (loom) from raw material that was produced there or it was cotton from local cotton or woolly from the wool of the sheep there or silky for formal dresses, from cocoons of a silkworm, that was raised there by the Byzantine years.
Afterwards the industrialisation of cloth, voufes were put aside, almost in entire Cyprus, apart from Phyti.
Weaving art in Phyti continued, jumping to another sector, to the adorning of weavers. The Phyti women adorned their trousseau. The weavers suited various colours rousing various inlays or improvising. Apart from their trousseau, the girls adorned pieces that were given as gifts to friends and relatives or were sold in the few, in the beginning, tourist shops.
By the time the fame of Phyiotiko Ploumisto exceeded the borders of Phytis. It became known in the entire island and not only. A lot of tourists, English in the beginning, visited Phyti in order to see, to admire and to buy napkin of Phyti or ‘sieme' or a ‘ploumisto' (adorning) tablecloth.
President's Offices, ambassadors and other local and foreigners dignitaries, are figured with the well known henceforth phytiotiko ploumisto, that with his turn made Phyti famous ', in Europe and all over the world.
Tourists become more and more. Many are those who take photographs of man weavers and women weavers and buy the famous henceforth Phytiotiko.
Another thing that attracts tourists to Phyti is the architecture of its buildings. 95% of its residences are built with stone with a good Stone and are built with straw mud and gravels where it needs. A lot of Architecture students make studies of Phytiotikis Architecture in order to have their doctorate. Today an architect visited the village, took a photo of the tap in the village square in order to take it to another village in Limassol.
A visitor Cypriot or foreign climbed up to Phyti , because it is a climb , since the village is found at the top of plateau " laoni of Phytis", in whose slopes there are small villages . It is the third higher village of Paphos with altitude 700m. Arriving at the village, he will park his vehicle in the big square of the village with the most appreciable buildings of village. In the northern utmost of the square there is the church of Saint Dimitrios that was built in 1857 in Royal rhythm with a woodcut iconostasis. All the visitors will visit the church, to light a candle and whisper a wish.
In the East there is a slated place .In the middle of this place, there is the cupreous bust of the benefactor of the village Konstantinos Phytidi. Behind the bust, the building of Community Museum of Phytis is built since 1947, "Weaving Museum and popular Art". Going easterly he will reach in the higher point of the village, where there are the aqueducts of 15 neighbouring villages. The view from this point is panoramic. In the north and in distance of 2 km, the green piny forest of Paphos begins. In the East the monastery of Virgin Mary of Hrysorrogiatissas, appears as a picture, in the slope of the highest plateau "the Vouni of Virgin Mary". In the south he will gaze the blue waters of Hrysohous gulf.
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