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Safi History and Pottery Heritage Walk

Safi History and Pottery Heritage Walk

Safi · Morocco

14 stops8.0 km1 h 37 min
  • Audio guide
  • 4 languages
  • Offline

Walk through Safi’s historic landmarks, religious buildings, public spaces, seafront, port and pottery quarter. You will encounter fortifications, the National Museum of Ceramics, mosques and a mausoleum before reaching workshops and pottery-focused stops. The route brings together the places that show Safi’s built heritage and its distinctive ceramic tradition. Take it for a focused introduction to the city through architecture, worship, maritime life and craft.

The walk

Stops 1–6 of 14. The rest are in the app.

  1. Bab Chaaba gate

    Bab Chaaba gate

    Bab Shaaba, a monument and tourist attraction in Safi, Morocco

  2. Fortress Wall Tower

    Fortress Wall Tower

    Tour du mur de la forteresse, an attraction in Safi, Morocco

  3. National Museum of Ceramics

    National Museum of Ceramics

    National Museum of Ceramics, a museum in Safi, Morocco

  4. 8 more stops on this walk, in the app

  5. Mausoleum of Saida al-Batoul al-Hdiliya

    A place of worship in Safi, Morocco.

  6. Great Mosque of Safi

    Great Mosque of Safi

    La Grande Mosquée, a Muslim place of worship in Safi, Morocco.

  7. Place de l'Indépendance

    Place de l'indépendance, an attraction in Safi, Morocco.

  8. Stop 7

  9. Stop 8

  10. Stop 9

  11. 8 more stops in the app

Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places

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How a walk works

8 more stops in the app

This page shows the first 6 of 14 stops. The rest of the walk, and the guide who narrates it, are in the app.

  1. Pick a walk

    Every stop is a real place, already in walking order.

  2. Pocket your phone

    Follow the line on the live map, or download the walk before you lose signal.

  3. Listen as you arrive

    On a narrated walk the story starts on its own at each stop, so your eyes stay on the place.

See the whole walk in the app

Free to install · Every city’s featured walk is free, start to finish.

  • A guide who talks

    Narration at every stop, starting on its own as you arrive — phone in your pocket.

  • The route, followed

    A live map with the turns called out, and a way back whenever you wander off it.

  • In four languages

    English, French, Spanish and Arabic — the words and the voice, not just the labels.

  • Or build your own

    Pick the places you actually want and the app works out the order to walk them in.

  • The unglamorous things

    Toilets, pharmacies, cash points and water, without leaving the walk.

  • No signal needed

    Download a walk before you go and it works under a souk roof or on a plane.

  • Picks up where you left off

    Stop for lunch, come back tomorrow, and the walk is exactly where you left it.