Soufli,
the city of silk, is 945 km. away from Athens and 65 km. from
Alexandroupolis. The city is built on the hill of Saint Ilias
and the tombs that have been discovered and date back to the alexandrine,
roman and Byzantine era prove that the region has been inhabited
for many years.  Many
great political personalities have spoken on the square of Soufli,
like E. Venizelos, N. Plastiras, G. Papandreou.
Soufli has been one of the first cities to exploit sericulture
as 2 monks brought secretly their canes from China, the seeds.
From those seeds the city managed to cultivate at a moment about
16.000.000 sq. meters of mulberries.
Today a visitor mustn’t omit to see the Museum of Silk as
well as the Folklore Museum, where you will learn a lot about
this important activity for the city. A little outside Soufli
there is the famous Forest of Dadia which is an attraction for
thousands of tourists every year.
An interesting excursion that is worth doing when in Soufli, apart
from Dadia, is Tyhero. It is a picturesque hamlet between Alexandroupolis
and Soufli. Here you can visit the Folklore Museum, the very strong
Center of Recreation and Sports nearby the artificial lake and
the fossil forest. Finally, the area around Tyhero is extremely
impressive, as there is a vast plain full of heliotropes, corn
plants and sugar beets.
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