Monastère des Ursulines

The Ursuline monastery occupies a former castle of the Grégoire de Lambrandès family, transformed over centuries into a religious and educational establishment featuring a sculpted portal and a seventeenth-century stone staircase.

Originally built as a castle by the noble families Grégoire de Lambrandès and Châteauneuf-Randon, the building was converted into a hotel after the French Revolution before being leased to the Sisters of the Presentation of Mary in eighteen twenty-three and acquired by the Ursulines in eighteen forty-two.

The Ursuline Sisters established a boarding school for the education of young girls in this building from eighteen forty-two onward, continuing an educational tradition that persists with the private school still operating on site today.

The entrance portal and the interior staircase have been registered as historic monuments since April seventeenth nineteen fifty, ensuring their protection and conservation for future generations.

The seventeenth-century interior staircase features a remarkable stereotomic design without visible support points, with arches counterbalancing themselves within a square plan over two levels.