The Episcopal Palace in Astorga was designed by Antoni Gaudí for Bishop Juan Bautista Grau y Vallespinos, a friend of Gaudí, and Ricardo García Guereta completed it. The text gives 1889 to 1913 for construction but also says the palace was completed between 1907 and 1915, and the two ranges conflict. The infobox lists no construction dates, only the heritage designation of July 24, 1969.
The article calls the style Modernisme with neo-medieval elements. It uses gray granite from El Bierzo. A planned 16-foot (5 m) angel was never mounted.
Gaudí resigned in 1893 after Grau's death, which halted construction for years. The building served as a Falange headquarters during the Spanish Civil War, and Julià Castelltort began restoration in 1956. It is now the Museo de los Caminos, a museum of religious art dedicated to the Way of Santiago. The article gives no hours.
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