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English translation

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History

This building of the late 16th century, heightened later, is a very particular example of the first houses probably inhabited storey by storey and relatively wealthy, constructed shortly before the 17th century. One may wonder whether the windows are not the result of later alteration, but the arrangement with pilasters initiates the evolution of civil architecture towards those regular arrangements which, over three centuries, would become a permanent theme. A depressed arch spans the entire façade. Corinthian columns, entablatures, window sills whose geometric sculpture would recall a Moorish composition, round-headed windows of the third storey and oculi give the house, still served by a spiral staircase in the pentagonal tower, a balanced arrangement. The four openings of the third storey, offset in relation to the storey below, give the impression that these two upper storeys were constructed later.