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Alabaster quarries and workshops of Sarral

Sarral, Conca de Barberà, Tarragona

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Alabaster quarries and workshops of Sarral

Historical milestone · Sarral, Conca de Barberà, Tarragona

Image of Sarral, not of the place itself.

The quarries of Sarral have extracted alabaster since at least Roman times; the craft reached its peak in the early 20th century, when more than thirty workshops turned the stone into altarpieces, images and liturgical objects, an activity now commemorated by the village's Museo del Alabastro.

siglo XVI

Photo: Catalan Art & Architecture Gallery (Josep Bracons) from Barcelona, Catalonia (CC BY-SA 2.0)

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