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Entering Normandy, you will visit Claude Monet’s home, the father of “Impressionism”. During this half day trip, you will discover in a Small-Group the famous gardens created by the impressionist painter, and the well-known Japanese bridge in the midst of its flowered paths and wather-lily ponds.
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Duration: 4 hours 30 minutes
Starts: Paris, France
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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Entering Normandy, you will visit Claude Monet’s home, the father of “Impressionism”. During this half day trip, you will discover in a Small-Group the famous gardens created by the impressionist painter, and the well-known Japanese bridge in the midst of its flowered paths and wather-lily ponds.
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Stop At: Fondation Claude Monet, 84 Rue Claude Monet, 27620 Giverny France
This half-day trip will lead you to the edge of Normandy, where you will visit the idyllic home of Claude Monet. There, get a Skip-the-Line Access as you enter into the garden with your guide by the special small group entrance!
You will have the opportunity to discover the precious collection of Japanese engravings is displayed in several rooms, hung in the marmer chosen by the master of Giverny himself. Claude Monet’s property at Giverny, left by his son to the Académie des Beaux-arts in 1966, has, after completion of large scale restoration work, become the Claude Monet Foundation, inaugurated in 1980. The huge Nymphéas studio, a stone’s throw from the house, has also been restored and contains the Foundation’s Shop.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: The Clos Normand – Fondation Claude Monet, 84 rue Claude Monet, 27620 Giverny France
You will also enjoy time in the gardens which have been replanted as they once were and offer visitors the “painting from nature” which Claude Monet’s contemporaries considered to be one of his masterpieces. The rectangular Clos Normand, with archways of climbing plants entwined around brilliantly coloured shrubs, lies before the house and studios, offering from Spring to Autumn the palette of varying colours to the painter-gardner who was “ecstatic about flowers”.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: The Clos Normand – Fondation Claude Monet, 84 rue Claude Monet, 27620 Giverny France
Lastly, the Water Garden, formed by a tributary of the Epte, lies further away, shaded by weeping willows. With its famous Japanese Bridge, its wistarias, azaleas and its pond, it has once more become that casket of sky and water which inspired the pictorial universe of the water lilies.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Giverny, Giverny, Eure, Haute-Normandie, Normandy
Take a walk in the village of Giverny. Enjoy an ice cream, have a drink or look for souvenirs to take home.
Duration: 15 minutes
