Gilles Bouis

Gilles Bouis is an archivist and a librarian of the diocese of Nice since 2003. Since 2011, he chairs the Association of archivists of the Church of France which has nearly 400 members. He has written 2 books: “The diocese of Nice. History and identities of a land of contrasts” and “The Church of Grasse. From Concordat to Vatican Council …

Fanny Spies

Fanny is an interpreter from English to Nissart. She got her Master’s degree in information and communication (Events, Mediation and Engineering of Culture: Museology, Living Arts and Heritage) at the university of Nice Sophia Antipolis. Fanny is a PR manager in Opera of Nice. Fanny is an interpreter from English to Nissart. She got her Master’s degree in information and …

Enzo Barnabà

Enzo Barnabà pursued studies of French language and literature in Naples and Montpellier, and history in Venice and Genoa. He taught French and French literature in various high schools in the region of Venice and Liguria, and worked as an Italian reader at the University of Aix-en-Provence. He has also been a cultural teacher-attaché in Abidjan (Ivory Coast), Shkoder (Albania) …

Alain Bottaro

Alain is the conservator of the Alpes Maritimes and the head archivist in the Department who holds joint French and Italian nationalities. He is also a professor at the Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis. Parallel to his career, his research in history concerned successively Roman antiquity, Italy in the modern and contemporary period and finally the history of Provence and Nice, …

Pascal Colletta

Pascal is a professor of a Niçois language, the specialist of the provençal game La Mourra. He has a Master’s degree in history and language of Oc. Pascal is the president of the associations “Mourra dei quatre cantouns” and “Ilonse Gavouot Ski Club”, he is also a local reporter of Nice-Matin and a co-worker of the bilingual magazine “Lou Sourgentin”. …

Visit to a Family Vineyard on September 23rd, 2018

The vendange is the best time of year to visit a local winery. It is the time of the grape harvest and the chance to see the wineyard in full operation. Via Nissa will be visiting two family owned wineyards in the Bellet region.  The wines of Bellet are small in quantitity and mostly known only to the locals.  They …