Palacio Gaudi Astorga 0 Euro Note

Palacio Gaudi Astorga 0 Euro Banknote

Episcopal Palace, Astorga




Product Code:   VEBK-2023-4
Circulation:        10,000




The Palacio Gaudi Astorga 0 Euro Note is a 0 Euro Note dedicated to Episcopal Palace of Astorga (Spanish: Palacio Episcopal de Astorga), which is a building by Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí. It was built between 1889 and 1913. Designed in the Catalan Modernisme style, it is one of only three buildings by Gaudí outside Catalonia. When the original Episcopal Palace was destroyed by a fire in the 19th century, Bishop Juan Bautista Grau y Vallespinos of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Astorga decided to assign the design of the new building to his friend Antoni Gaudí. The two had become friends when Grau was Vicar-General in the Archdiocese of Tarragona and had inaugurated a church for which the architect had designed the high altar. When Gaudí received the commission, he was still working at the Palau Güell in Barcelona, and thus he could not move to Astorga to study the terrain and the area of the new construction. He therefore asked the bishop to send him photographs so Gaudí could plan the new project. Gaudí sent back his design, and it was approved in February 1889. The first stone was placed in June the following year. Read more