This Saturday, March 18 at 3 PM – Auditorium of the MAMAC
The Heritage lecture series “If Palaces Could Tell Stories” continues with a lecture by Simonetta Tombaccini-Villefranque.
These lectures are part of the numerous awareness-raising actions conducted throughout the year by the City of Nice to unveil the many facets and perspectives of its heritage.
The palaces of Old Nice are spoken of as one would refer to Italian palazzi or the private mansions in the Marais area of Paris. But what exactly does this term encompass? And what remains today of this noble civilian architecture?
This lecture aims to illustrate the urban transformation of Nice over a hundred years through the construction of palaces in several neighborhoods of the city, namely in the “New City,” near the port, and on Victor Square.
Simonetta Tombaccini-Villefranque, a historian with degrees in Political Science from the Universities of Florence, Nancy, and Nice, is the author of works on Italian fascism and anti-fascism (published in Paris and Milan) and volumes on the nobility of Nice and the Jewish community of Nice (published in Nice in 2010 and 2016 by the Academia Nissarda). She is currently in charge of Italian archives at the Departmental Archives of the Alpes-Maritimes.
