Enjoy a relaxing day and visit the house and beautiful gardens of the most famous Impressionist painter
If you love impressionism and want to learn more about its most important exponent, this tour is a must during your Parisian stay. Enjoy this private tour in the footsteps of Claude Monet, you will see with your own eyes the real landscapes that have been depicted by this authentic genius in the beautiful paintings that are now exhibited in the most important museums around the world.
Meet our driver and our tour guide at the reception of your centrally located hotel and get a relaxing journey in a comfortable vehicle toward the Norman village of Giverny. It is just 70Km away from Paris and in just 1 hour drive you will be in the destination. Once arrived we will immediately immerse in the world of Claude Monet, famous for his landscape canvases and numerous views of his garden, such as the "Water Lilies," the "Japanese Bridge" and "The Irises." We will enter to the Monet famous pink-plastered house, where he lived and worked for more than 40 years (long explanations of the interior are not permitted due to the lack of space). We will visit the bright yellow dining room, which has been reconstructed down to the very last detail, with earthenware dishes and a blue-tiled kitchen. In the dining room, marvel at one of the world's most important collections of Japanese prints. We will explore the reading room, leading into the larder and the artist's studio, and the beautiful painter’s blue-tiled kitchen. Looking at all the artist's personal effects, we will gain a sense of the atmosphere and rhythm of his daily life.
Exiting to his extensive gardens, we will explore this important source of inspiration. Passionate about gardening and color variations, Monet literally designed his flower garden, fruit tree orchard and water garden as if they were works of art. As you visit the gardens at Giverny, you will see the central pathway leading up to the house, bordered by different varieties of nasturtiums and roses, as well as the multicolored flower beds full of tulips, narcissi, daffodils, irises and peonies. Stroll through the Clos Normand Flower Garden, which is home to many plants of Eastern origins, until you reach the lavish water garden, so famous for its water lilies, weeping willows and green-painted Japanese Bridge (bridges like this are traditionally red in Japan). Fans of Monet's paintings and garden-lovers alike will be inspired by the changing dominant colors of Monet's gardens from month to month: blue and rose in April, lilac and white in May, rose and mauve in June, rose and red at the beginning of July.
At the end of this pleasant and relaxing promenade with your expert guide, we will meet our driver again and start our journey back to Paris. After this immersive experience in the impressionism, you will certainly understand why Claude Monet is considered as one of the most important artist in the painting history.