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8.30 am everyday except Monday, from April 1st to October 31st.
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4 hrs 30 mn
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Guide
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A drive on the Normandy highway leads us to Giverny, a charming country village.
It was in Giverny where painter Claude Monet
chose to settle with his family; and it was there where he indulged in
his love of nature, in his art, his garden his photography.
In Giverny, we will see Monet’s home, his garden and workshop, all authentically restored.
As we stroll in the exquisitely coloured gardens and admire
the pond with the famous Japanese bridge, we enter Monet’s world where
art and nature become one.
Entrance ticket included.
Monet’s house :
• Given by his son Michel to the French Academy of Fine Arts in 1966,
the rough-cast pink house was where the doyen of the impressionist
school lived between 1883 and 1926. The house has been restored to its
original interior colours and charm. You can see the Master of
Giverny’s own precious collection of Japanese prints hung just as they
were by him. Outside is Monet’s large studio where he painted the
famous Nympheas series. It now houses the Claude Monet Foundation shop.
• The gardens were rebuilt to their original state and visitors can
admire this « painting set within nature » which Claude
Monet’s contemporaries considered to be among his greatest
masterpieces. In front of the house and studios, the « Clos
Normand » extends in straight lines with vaults of aerial plants
surrounding dazzling fl owerbeds. From spring to autumn, the gardens
refl ect the changing palette of the painter-gardener « mad about
flowers. »
• Further down and fashioned by a diversion in the river Epte in the
shade of willow trees lays the water garden with its famous Japanese
bridge. The gardens burst with wisteria, azaleas and of course there is
the famous water lily pond too. It’s a panoply of water and sky that
gave birth to the pictorial universe of the Nympheas.
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64 Euros