Below you'll find a list of all posts from November, 2019
Robert Levitt wrote an article in Nice Matin blog about the symbols that can be found in the old town of Nice. The initial entry of Jews into Nice is subject to speculation, but the first documents related to the establishment of a Jewish Ghetto in Nice, called judaysium, are dated in the year 1430. We don’t know whether the Ghetto …
You might know the Vladimir Lenin was a resident in Nice, living here prior to the Russian revolution in 1917, but do you know the fascinating story of his childhood? There were two men, Ilya and Theodore, both educators in a small Russian town, both with fathers of April born sons. Theodore boy was a preschooler, Ilya’s was a teenager …
This unusual villa was built by the architect Georges Massa. It was one of a series of homes which were designed by Massa in the Vallauris region. Massa was the architect of a recent Villa in Golfe Juan which Via Nissa studied in completing a historical report. Our historical research involves archival and historical studies on properties, those who built …
Have you visited the Jewish cemetery in Nice? It is very rare that an ancient cemetery can be found in the center of a city. One of the most moving tombstone is of a small boy who just before dying asked his parents for a train, plane, car and pine tree which they never had the opportunity to give to …
Many of the locals know about Sainte Réparate, whom the Cathedral in Nice is named after. She was a teenage Palestinian girl arrested by the Romans for being Christian. The story goes that the Romans tried to kill her by burning her, but rains came which put out the fire. Then they made her drink boiling water and finally chopped …
