Description
Entering Normandy, you will visit the Father of Impressionism, Claude Monet's home. Discover the famous gardens created by the impressionist painter, and the well known Japanese bridge in the midst of its flowered paths and water-lily ponds. This tour ends with a visit to the "musee d'art Americain Giverny": Franco-American contributions to the history of art.
Claude Monet's property at Giverny, left by his son to the Academie des Beaux-arts in 1966, has, after completion of large-scale restoration work, become the Claude Monet Foundation, inaugurated in 1980. The house, with its pink crushed brick facade, where the leader of the Impressionist School lived from 1883 to 1926, once again has its colorful decor and intimate charm of former times. The precious collection of Japanese engravings is displayed in several rooms, hung in the manner chosen by the master of Giverny himself.
The huge Nympheas studio, a stone's throw from the house, has also been restored. It contains the Foundation's shop. The gardens have been replanted as they once were, and offer for the admiration of visitors the "painting from nature" which Claude Monet's contemporaries considered one of his masterpieces. The rectangular Clos Normand, with archways of climbing plants entwined around brilliantly colored shrubs, lies before the house and studios, offering from Spring to Autumn the palette of varying colors to the painter-gardener who was "ecstatic about flowers". Lastly, the Water Garden, formed by a tributary of the Epte, lies further away, shielded by weeping willows. With its famous Japanese Bridge, its wisterias, azaleas and its pond, it has once more become that combination of sky and water which inspired the pictorial universe of the water lilies.

Notes
Operates April 1 - October 31 only
Daily except Mondays: Departs 1:15pm
Sundays: Departs 8:15am
Pick up and return to the lobby of your central Paris hotel
Duration: approximately 4 and one half hours.
Child discount for ages 4-10; under 4 free
Entrances included.
Note: Tour guides are multi-lingual and the tour may be conducted in other languages as well as in English.

Restrictions
Pre-reserved tour; non-changeable and non-refundable once paid in full.