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Restaurant La Trattoria
( 0524 62 09 59; 2 Rue l'Aouinate; meals Dh200; 7-11pm) La Trattoria is a pleasant place
with a relaxed ambience and passable Italian food. The menu has a full range of pizzas
and pasta, and a good choice of fish and seafood. It's run by the same management as
Restaurant Gégène, but it's more upmarket, and is located off Blvd du Front de Mer,
400m north of the medina.

ITALIAN €€€

Shopping
Safi is famed for its pottery, and you can find some great items here (as well as some aw-
ful tourist dross). To get a feel for prices visit the fixed-price pottery shop OFFLINE MAP
GOOGLE MAP ( 9am-8pm) on the right-hand side of Rue du Souq as your enter the medina
from Bab Lamaasa. To the left, towards the eastern end of the same street, you'll find the
colourful pottery souq OFFLINE MAP

GOOGLE MAP .

Information

There are plenty of banks and ATMs clustered around Pl de l'Indépendance and Pl Driss
ben Nacer. Visit www.safi-ville.com for tourist information.

Main Post Office (Ave Sidi Mohammed Abdallah; 8.30am-4.30pm Mon-Fri)

Post Office (Pl de l'Indépendance; 8.30am-4.30pm Mon-Fri)

Getting There & Away

BUS
Most CTM buses stopping in Safi originate elsewhere, so consider booking in advance.
Destinations include Agadir (Dh115, five hours, three daily), Casablanca (Dh95, four
hours, six daily), El-Jadida (Dh60, two hours, four daily) and Essaouira (Dh50, two hours,
four daily). Other operators run daily departures to the same destinations as well as to Ou-
alidia and Tiznit.

TAXI
There are grands taxis to Marrakesh (Dh75) and Essaouira (Dh60), among other destina-
tions, which leave from the parking lot beside the bus station. The rank for Oualidia
(Dh25, 45 minutes) and El-Jadida (Dh55, 90 minutes) is a good kilometre north of town
on the El-Jadida road.