The pottery and the ceramic :

Safi dues the best part of its reputation to the potters’ delicate work. This craftsman’s trade industry, millennial in Morocco, gave birth to a traditional art that was transmitted from generation to generation until nowadays. But it didn’t gather its original purity, and it knew a net decadence during the French protectorate period in Morocco.

The ceramist master Lamali, charged by the Beautiful Arts with the renovation of this art led remarkably this task. He gave back the primitive purity to the Safi’s pottery, he enriched it with new types Hispanic - Mauresc or Persian. Finally he taught this art to its students, whom he counsels and leads. In 1919, there were merely five masters potters in Safi when he arrived here. But in 1950 they were sixty.

Safi was the first African center of pottery, the headquarters of the first ceramic school in Africa (the golden medals testimony the historic value of the pottery)
- 1922: golden medal at the International Exhibition from Marseilles
- 1931: honour diploma at the International Exhibition from Paris
- 1949 honour diploma at the International Exhibition from New York

The Safi pottery don’t cease to develop with the use of the new colorants in order to satisfy the demands flux multiple and diversified came from the four corners of the world. In march 1990 Safi sheltered the first ‘Inter-Mediterranean Pottery and Ceramic Salon’ that marked the opening of the ‘National Museum of Pottery andCeramic’.