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The Château de Salles-Curan, or Bishops' Castle (château des évêques), owes its name to the seigneurial halls (salles) of the site. The Bishop of Rodez became its sole lord in 1237. Bishop Guillaume de La Tour had the present castle built in 1441–1442, under a contract signed on 15 September 1442 with the mason Pierre Combettes; the building has three gates and three towers with windows, doors and dormers, and his coat of arms surmounts the main portal, which is fitted with a drawbridge. During the Wars of Religion, Salles-Curan served as a Catholic stronghold facing Protestant Millau, and in 1601 it took in Benedictine nuns who had sought refuge there. From 1842, the Teysseyre family bought up the castle's properties; from 1922 to 2017 the east wing housed a Catholic school, while the north wing became the starred restaurant "L'Hostellerie du Lévézou", which closed in 2012. The porch, the drawbridge and the oculus above the porch have been listed as historic monuments since 1928.