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sheltered in the mansion of Andreas and his son Smith or
Hadjismith Zimlboulakis who from the end of the 18th
century even till 1864 served as Vice-Consuls of England in Pafos.
The stone-built mansion of Zimboulakis, two-storied and large for
the datas of its time, constitute an excellent specimen of the
Cyprus traditional architecture during the 2nd half of
the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th
century. The house has been proclaimed as an “ancient
monument” by the Antiquities Department, it has been reinstated
and converted to a Folk Art Museum in 1978. There is exposed a
great variety of ethnographic crafts from different areas of
Cyprus.
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