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The Issala House, located in Cahors in the Lot, is a rare example of a small 16th century rural building. Built in bricks, it is distinguished by a square tower raising one of its angles, as well as by arcades on the ground floor and a low arcade gallery on the first floor. These architectural elements, combined with arches today blocked on the second floor, illustrate the style of bourgeois country houses built in the immediate vicinity of cities at that time.

Ranked among the Historical Monuments since 1954, the house Issala belongs to a category today disappeared: that of urban secondary residences intended for the bourgeois of Cahors. Its inscription in the inventory of Historical Monuments (Decree of 14 January 1954) underlines its heritage importance, especially for its brick architecture and arcade galleries, characteristic of the Renaissance civil buildings in the South-West.

The location of the house, rue de la Rivière in Cahors, reflects its past use as a resort for local elites. Although the sources do not specify its current use (visit, rental, etc.), its state of conservation and legal protection make it a valuable testimony of the architectural and social history of the Occitanie region, then integrated into the historic province of Quercy.

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