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The Minimes de Decize convent, located in Decize in the Nièvre department (region Burgundy-Franche-Comté), is a historical monument dating back to the 12th century for the church, while the convent buildings date mainly from the 17th and 19th centuries. The architectural complex includes a church, a cloister, facades and roofs of convent buildings, as well as rooms decorated in a Louis XVI style in the 19th century. These elements reflect a continuous religious occupation and architectural evolutions marked by medieval, classical and modern periods.

The church, classified by order of May 2, 1979, and the convent buildings, inscribed on the same day, illustrate the heritage importance of the site. The convent, owned by the commune of Decize, preserves traces of its religious past with spaces like a dining room and a decorated room, reflecting the art of living of the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. The location of the monument, although documented (4 Marguerite-Monot Street), remains approximate according to available sources, with a precision deemed satisfactory (note 7/10).

The legal protections specifically cover the cloister, the facades and roofs of the convent buildings, as well as remarkable interiors such as the room decorated on the ground floor and a bedroom on the first floor. These elements, combined with the classified church, underline the historical and artistic value of the convent. No information is available on its current accessibility (visits, rental, accommodation), but its status as a Historic Monument makes it a place of major heritage interest in the Nièvre.

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