Suflí Gypsum Interpretation Centre

This gypsum interpretation centre located in Suflí (Almería) rescues and highlights the historical importance of gypsum as a material widely used in traditional architecture. Although nowadays it does not maintain its importance nor is it frequently used, its study and exhibition offers the opportunity to value and recover a highly versatile material. In addition, it allows the use of ancient elements and construction techniques that are markedly different from those used in contemporary architecture to be recovered.

The compositional characteristics of traditional plaster make this material a bio-sustainable product, both for restoration work and for the construction of new buildings. It also offers the possibility of rescuing and reconstructing the history of the productive and constructive tradition of plaster, together with its relationship with the cultural development of the society of the municipality of Suflí. Thus, the Suflí Gypsum Interpretation Centre rescues and gives value to traditional gypsum as an identifying element of the Spanish populations, allowing the valuation and social appropriation of this material together with the cultural load of its production and use.

This theoretical-practical interpretation centre is a large quarry based on the production and use of traditional plaster in the Almanzora region, which pays special attention to the state of conservation of the deposits, the quarries and the artisan ovens, as well as the characteristics of the traditional architecture made with this material, focusing on the qualities of this construction material.

The Suflí Town Council will show you the process of making plaster as it was done in the past, as the centre has a free audio guide that explains the plaster production process in 6 steps.

To visit the centre it is necessary to request it at the Town Hall as it is usually closed. The visit is free of charge.

Suflí Town Hall telephone number: 950 42 34 24