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The Hotel Bonald, located in Rodez, is a historic monument built in the 1st quarter of the 16th century. It is distinguished by its organisation around an inner courtyard, accessible from Seguy Street. The elevation on the street of Bonald, sober, is pierced by a door covered by a broken arch on the ground floor. The polygonal tower housing the screw stairway, hanging around an ejected helical core, is a remarkable architectural element. A lapidary limestone decor, probably from a flamboyant polylobe fireplace, is still visible.

The hotel was reportedly built around 1500 by Bertrand de Cenaret, archdeacon of Rodez, who lived there at the beginning of the sixteenth century. The structure appears to be the result of the expansion or assembly of two earlier buildings, as evidenced by a visible angle chain on the southern façade. The stairway tower, with its half-crossed windows and its protruding larmal, as well as the hollowed core screw, are characteristic of the first quarter of the sixteenth century. Significant changes in the 18th century changed the windows of the façade on the street, covered with lintels loosed into segment arches.

On the garden side, a striped tower houses the staircase, while a round corbelled tower intersects between the house and the stair tower. The entrance to Séguy Street is framed by two pavilions probably built in the last quarter of the 19th century. The doors on the rue de Bonald and on the courtyard preserve 17th-century wooden vants. The hotel, partially protected since 1991, illustrates the civil architecture of the Russian Renaissance, mixing sobriety and flamboyant decorative elements.

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