on October 5, 2003
of Morocco and also for the export of phosphates. Pottery is manufactured. Safi is a compactly built, fortified city dominated by a 16th-centuryruined castle of the sultans. The city was held by the Portuguese until 1541. Subsequently it came under French control until Morocco became an
independent nation in 1956.
The old city of Safi is one of the two hearts of Safi — about one kilometre the centre of the new centre is, and in between the two there is fairly little going on.
The old city is apparently not the place of the people with money, but the little Safi has of tourist traffic is staged here, in between the ceramic shops that try to sell as much to as good a price as possible .
