Gaudí designed the episcopal palace of Astorga fully integrated into its surroundings. For the architect, "it had to be, first, white dress of bishops, with the liturgical significance, and here it was to mark the contrast and thereby establish a center for irradiation." That is why he chose for the walls stone without blanks, that accumulates snow, and the whole building set came to be a symbiosis of bishop temple and seigniorial castle. Its interior and exterior forms, drawn by Berenguer in the distant release of the Sagrada Família, are all incredibly Spanish and, in turn, beyond any of the fickle typical when Spanish architecture lapses or degenerates. The result is a precise and exquisite intimate knowledge of the soul of Spain who had the Catalan Gaudí. In the outer towers, Gaudí recorded the coats of Mons. Grau i Vallespinós. When, on the death of Dr. Grau in 1893, Gaudí abandoned the project, the works were halted indefinitely. Many years later, the building was crowned with a good deck, but very little Gaudí.