A small Renaissance mansion built in the early 16th century for a family of Italian merchants who had settled in Bourges. The building is one of the earliest Renaissance houses in central France and is itself worth the visit — the interior staircase, the chapel ceiling carved with a flock of mysterious symbols, and the secluded courtyard.
The hôtel now houses the city's museum of decorative arts: furniture, tapestries, ceramics, and ivories. It is rarely crowded and gives a much quieter sense of how a wealthy family lived than the more famous Palais Jacques-Cœur down the road.