“Les Niveoles” cottage

In 17^th century, the valley was inhabited by lumberjacks and coalmen from the Tyrol region, the Black Forest area, Switzerland and Italy. Mittlach was quoted for the 1^st time in documents from 18^th century. In local dialect, Mittlach means “small river”.

Our cottage is an old coalman farm from 19^th century. At that time, people did what they could to be autonomous all year long and usually had a cow and a pig, livestock on site.   

The farm was bought by our family in 1962. Tremendous transformations were made until 2010: what was originally an haystack has turned into a cozy cottage for 6 guests. That feeling of happiness we cherish is palpable.