  We report on recent optical observations of the stellar and the nebular
remnants of 22 southern post-novae. In this study, for each of our targets, we
obtained and analysed long-slit spectra in the spectral range 3500-6600 A and
in H$\alpha$+NII narrow-band images. The changes in the emission lines'
equivalent widths with the time since the outburst agree with earlier published
results of other authors. We estimated an average value $\alpha$=2.37 for the
exponent of the power law fitted to the post-novae continua. Our observations
clearly show the two-component structure of the V842 Cen expanding nebulae,
owing to the different velocities of the ejected matter. We discovered an
expanding shell around V382 Vel with an outer diameter of about 12 arcsec.
