Belleval hotel, Private mansion in central Montpellier, France.

The Hôtel Richer de Belleval is a cream-colored stone building on the Place de la Canourgue, built between 1669 and 1682 for Charles de Boulhac. Its ground floor has tall grilled windows, some with potted plants, and a narrow balcony with a black wrought-iron railing runs above them. On the right, a dark green double door sits beneath a stone lintel carved with "PALAIS DE JUSTICE ANNEE".

Built between 1669 and 1682 by Charles de Boulhac on the site of a canons' residence destroyed in the 17th century, the mansion passed by dowry to the Belleval family in 1709. Joseph-Philibert de Belleval carried out major works and interior decoration from 1751. The city bought it in 1816 for 113,000 francs and made it the town hall until 1975; from 1976 to 2010 it housed the prud'hommes court as an annex of the neighbouring palais de justice. Inscribed as a monument historique in 2015, it reopened in 2021 as a hotel, restaurant and contemporary art foundation.

The hotel displays works by contemporary artists that shape its interior spaces today. These pieces create a dialogue between the classical building structure and modern artistic expression.

The building stands on the Place de la Canourgue, with facades also on the rue du Vestiaire and the rue du Puits-des-Esquilles-de-Saint-Pierre. The hotel has 15 rooms and 5 suites, each decorated differently, plus a bistro in the former cour d'honneur. The Fondation GGL-Helenis exhibition space on the ground floor is open to visitors.

Five permanent artworks were commissioned for the restored interiors under curator Numa Hambursin. Jim Dine made a ceramic ceiling for the porch with the Manufacture de Sèvres, Jan Fabre covered the former wedding room's ceiling with beetle wing-cases, and Marlène Mocquet filled the grand staircase ceiling with gold leaf, paint and ceramic sculpture.