Half-day tour of Monet's gardens on your own - from Paris
Description
Half-day excursion from Paris to discover at your pace Monet's gardens and house, accompanied by your host. Immerse yourself in the world of the prodigious painter, famous for his landscape paintings based on the perspectives of his garden, such as the "Water Lilies", "The Japanese Bridge" and "The Iris". Monet's gardens are a source of inspiration to this day.
You can admire the water lily pond and its play of colors, its legendary Japanese-inspired bridge and immerse yourself in the Monet's gardens and the artist's daily life by visiting his home and studio.
Created with a passion about gardening and color variations, Monet's gardens were designed like works of art. During your visit, admire the central path leading to the house, lined with roses of all kinds that you can see all over the place in Monet's gardens , and contemplate the beds of a thousand colors covering the ground : tulips, narcissi, daffodils, irises, peonies...
Stroll through the Clos Normand, planted with numerous plants of oriental origin, to reach the sumptuous water garden ). Let yourself be seduced by the atmosphere, the play of light and the reflections of the clouds on the pond that make Monet's gardens so popular.
Then take a free tour of Monet's house, where he lived and worked for many years. Discover the "salon bleu" reading room, which communicates with the "épicerie", Claude Monet's studio where he worked until 1889. Visit the sunny yellow dining room, recreated down to the last detail, very modern for its time. Admire one of the world's most important collections of Japanese prints in the dining room.
At the end of your visit, take advantage of the village and its pretty boutique-library, the 300m2 former Atelier des Nymphéas, offering a wide choice of products related to the work of the Impressionist artist: postcards, posters, teas, books, Claude Monet's official crockery and flower and plant seeds.
This tour is the perfect opportunity to visit Monet's gardens at Giverny and take amazing photos to keep forever.
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Located on the right bank of the Seine, the town is world-famous for the paintings of Claude Monet, who lived here from 1883 until his death in 1926. Like Monet in his day, visitors can't help but pause for a long moment in front of the water garden, with its Japanese bridge and water lilies... backdrops that inspired two of his best-known paintings.
