Agadir, Morocco Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

Flanked by a strip of fertilizer factories, a vast grain silo and sardine-canning plants, SAFI is not the prettiest of Moroccan towns. It does, however, provide a glimpse of an active, modern and working community and the old Medina in its centre, walled and turreted by the Portuguese, holds a certain interest. The city – it merits the name with a population of over 300,000 – also has a strong industrial-artisan tradition, with a whole quarter devoted to pottery workshops . These have a virtual monopoly on the green, heavily glazed roof tiles used on palaces and mosques, as well as providing … more »