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The Château des Bourines, in Bertholène, is a former fortified feudal grange. In 1273, the Counts of Rodez gave the estate to the hospital of Aubrac, which established a monastic grange there for grain storage. The rectangular 13th-century keep and its fortifications (curtain walls and four 14th-century corner towers) were reinforced during the Hundred Years' War. From 1546 to 1585, Cardinal Georges d'Armagnac, abbot of Aubrac, resided there and commissioned Renaissance improvements, including a portal (1546); a wayside cross was erected in front of the north façade in 1579. In the 19th century, the estate belonged to the Granier family, merchants from Montpellier. Listed as a historic monument since 1963, the château retains its original beams and fireplaces, a 15th-century chapel with rib vaulting, and a 16th-century gallery. It served as a filming location for the films Malevil (1981) and Fanfan la Tulipe (2003).