THE HILL OF POTTERS OF SAFI

 

Outside the ramparts of the Medina of Safi, stands the unmissable Hill of Potters, a magical place where potters, turners and painters generously exhibit their ancestral know-how in the eyes of locals and tourists.

A coastal city located 200 km from Marrakech, Safi is one of the oldest cities in Morocco. Renowned for the richness and quality of its clay, Safi quickly became, from the nineteenth century like Fez, a ceramic producer city, and eventually became, with the opening of the 1st ceramic school in the Kingdom and of Africa, the Ceramic Capital of Morocco, by creating a new and original style, called the "Mesfioui style", recognizable by its bright colors and refined floral decorations.

It was therefore without hesitation that we went to Safi, where we met the Serghini family, Master potters from Father to Son for 8 generations. Fervent defenders of the ancestral know-how of their ancestors, the Serghini family is also the biggest contributor to its evolution, raising the art of Moroccan pottery to the rank of world heritage.