The Mondrainville hotel is located in the center of Caen, at the current No. 7 of Gémare street in the neighborhood Quatrans.
It was built from 1531 by a citizen who made a fortune in trade, Etienne Duval Mondrainville, which will also subsequently Governor alderman and Receiver General of Normandy. Grown, art lover, he was also patron.
The entire Renaissance building originally consisted of several buildings: a main building which later became the mint, a casino (reception area has retained the name of "Mondrainville hotel") and a third hotel.
The entire site is a busy time by printers in the nineteenth century, only the remaining casino inhabited by a painter who also makes his workshop with showroom.
The entire hotel is very affected in 1944 at the Battle of Caen. Only the casino is to say, the summer residence and leisure, can be saved. It will be restored but included in the scope of the new savings bank built in the 1950s was renovated, the last witness of the Mondrainville hotel is now a private property protected as historical monuments, and it is called to accommodate student housing. its exterior can be observed during a discovery walk of downtown. Information at +33 2 31 27 14 14.