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Château du Rival (or Rivail), at Saint-Jean-Saint-Nicolas (Hautes-Alpes), is a fortress built in the middle of the 14th century and extensively rebuilt after its acquisition by the du Serre family in 1590. Its chapel was consecrated in 1597, and alterations continued into the 17th century, as attested by a marble relief dated 1633. Laid out on an L-shaped plan, it has two corner towers, one round with a conical roof and the other polygonal with a spire, an interior vaulted staircase decorated with stucco (acanthus leaves, egg-and-dart moulding), Renaissance windows with splayed embrasures, and a painted sundial. In 1750 it passed to Henry Moncheny-Bonnabel; it is privately owned.