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Episcopal Palace of Astorga

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The Episcopal Palace of Astorga is a constructing with the aid of Spanish Catalan architect Antoni Gaudi. It became built among 1889 and 1913. Designed in the Catalan Modernisme style, it's far certainly one of handiest 3 buildings by using Gaudi out of doors Catalonia. When the unique Episcopal Palace was destroyed by using a fireplace within the 19th century, Bishop Juan Bautista Grau Y Vallespinos of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Astorga determined to assign the design of the new constructing to his buddy Antoni Gaudi.
The two had grow to be friends when Grau was Vicar-General inside the Archdiocese of Tarragona and had inaugurated a church for which the architect had designed the excessive altar. When Gaudi acquired the commission, he become nevertheless running at the Palau Guell in Barcelona, and accordingly he could not pass to Astorga to observe the terrain and the area of the new production. He consequently asked the bishop to ship him photographs so Gaudi could plan the brand new challenge. Gaudí sent back his layout, and it became authorized in February 1889. The first stone become positioned in June the subsequent year.
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