Category: News
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More than 125,000 people visited Gaudí’s Palace in 2025
The Gaudí Palace in Astorga has closed the year 2025 with a very positive balance, once again surpassing the figure of 125,000 visitors. This is especially significant if we take into account that the fires that occurred during the summer months partly affected the number of visitors during that period.
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Two documents with Gaudí’s signature star in February’s ‘Piece of the Month’.
The project of the Episcopal Palace of Astorga was administratively complex and full of uncertainties for Antonio Gaudí, who had to submit to the tutelage (after the decisive mediation to obtain economic funds from the then Governor of the Bank of Spain, the Astorga-born Mr. Pío Gullón Iglesias), the Ministry of Grace and Justice and…
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The Gaudí Palace recognizes the City Council of Astorga as “Ambassador” for its support of the Gaudí Year
The Astorga City Council receives this first appointment for its support to the Gaudí Palace and the collaboration for the commemoration of the Gaudí Year 2026 in the city.
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Palace Ambassadors opens to institutions and companies
On the occasion of Gaudí Year and the centenary of the death of Antoni Gaudí, the Gaudí Palace of Astorga opens a specific line of collaboration, within the program “Ambassadors of the Palace”, aimed at institutions and companies wishing to link their name to one of the most relevant cultural commemorations of 2026.
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Gaudí Palace launches “Ambassadors of the Palace”.
On the occasion of the commemoration of Gaudí Year 2026 and the centenary of the death of Antoni Gaudí, the Gaudí Palace of Astorga presents “Ambassadors of the Palace”, a program aimed exclusively at people registered in Astorga and the municipalities of the region, with the aim of strengthening the link between the monument and…
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A seventeenth-century silver peace holder, this December’s Piece of the Month
The Museum of the Ways of the Palace of Gaudí closes this year 2024 highlighting a Portapaz of gilded silver and in its color of unknown authorship and provenance. This December’s ‘Piece of the Month’ focuses on the Nativity of Jesus, the central image in the work. It will be on display throughout the month…
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Gaudí Palace under the neuroscience lens
The Gaudí Palace will be the subject of a pilot study using eye-tracking techniques to explore how people visually perceive its architecture. This is a pioneering research framed in the IV International Congress of Neurocommunication and Neuromarketing that combines advanced technology with historical heritage to reveal the visual pattern of those who contemplate the monument.…
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Presentation of the calendar for the commemoration of Gaudí Year 2026 at the Gaudí Palace
The Gaudí Palace of Astorga has presented this Friday its calendar of activities for the Gaudí Year 2026, on the occasion of the centenary of the death of the architect. The program, which will run throughout the year, wants to pay tribute to the genius of Reus and its link with Astorga, while inviting all…
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Gaudí Palace inaugurates the Gaudí Year 2026 in Riudoms and Reus
The Gaudí Palace of Astorga has been present at the opening ceremony of the Gaudí Year 2026 – Any Gaudí – held this Saturday, November 8 in the towns of Riudoms and Reus (Tarragona), a day that gave official start to the commemoration of the centenary of the death of Antoni Gaudí, to be held…
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November’s ‘Piece of the Month’ tells the life of St. Martin of Tours
The Museum of the Ways of the Gaudí Palace presents as November’s Piece of the Month an anonymous panel recounting the life of Saint Martin of Tours, from Requejo (León) dating from 1500. The featured piece is on display throughout the month on the second floor of the Gaudí Palace.
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“La danza de Salomé”, by Demetrio Monteserín, October’s ‘Piece of the Month’.
A traveling artist, in this work, singular for its subject matter, he demonstrates his ability to show a showy scenography with a theme that constitutes one of the Gospel stories with more dramatic and novel elements
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Roman loom weights, September’s ‘Piece of the Month’.
The Museum of the Ways of the Gaudí Palace presents as September’s ‘Piece of the Month’ some loom weights from the Roman period from archaeological sites in Astorga. It is on display until the end of the month on the second floor of the Gaudí Palace in a prominent place.
