Paris Vision - Visit Paris, guided tours in France in coach or minibus

From April 1st to October 31st Departure: 1.45 pm from Monday to Saturday and 8.15am on Sunday, .

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.

Free time to stroll about the village or visit the "Musée des Impressionnismes Giverny" 

 
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.