Giverny and Monet's Gardens Day Trip from Paris

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Feel like you're inside a Claude Monet painting as you visit his home on this excursion to Giverny, the beautiful French village where the painter lived for more than 40 years and where he was inspired to create his impressionist works of art.

You will travel from Paris by bus. You will visit with your expert guide its idyllic gardens of a thousand flowers and its water lily ponds, crowned with Japanese-style green bridges.

  • Visit the house of the painter Claude Monet.
  • Explore the idyllic gardens that inspired his paintings.
  • Stroll through the historic center of the village of Giverny with a guide.

What’s included

  • Excursion to the Claude Monet Foundation
  • A walk in the gardens of Monet's house
  • Tour of the village of Giverny
  • Transportation by air-conditioned bus

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Relive the source of Claude Monet's inspiration as you explore his home, gardens and ponds on this half-day excursion departing from Paris with a professional local guide.

You'll embark on an air-conditioned bus tour that will take you to the home of the forerunner and leading figure of the Impressionist painting movement.

This place became his own foundation in the 1980s, when it opened its doors to the public.

You will stroll through the Water Garden, the most idyllic picturesque scene in the house, stylized with ponds of water lilies that were filled with the stealthy discharge of the Epte River, a tributary of the Seine.

Over these waters perch the beautiful green bridges with wisteria, inspired by Japanese art and landscaping, one of the artist's self-confessed hobbies, which he also captured in his work.

In front of the main house, whose windows and parts of its facade are also painted in an intense green, are the gardens known as Clos Normandy, which offer a visual spectacle straight out of Monet's paintings.

In spring, especially, its countless lilies, roses, daffodils, nasturtiums, peonies and many other kinds of plants and flowers stand out, offering an unforgettable concert of color, light and splendor for every visitor.

When you visit, you will feel like you are in a floral paradise of light and shadow, with towering trees, vines and weeping willows, reflecting the scenes immortalized in Monet's paintings.

After the excursion at the foundation, you will also have the opportunity to visit the historic center of the village of Giverny, located on the west bank of the Seine River in the Normandy region.

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4.8
· 237 Reviews
  • E
    EunAe
    5
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    I would come back without hesitation. The ponds and the incredible village.
  • Y
    Yan
    5
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    Our guide gave us a lot of information about the art, the studios and the gardens. We learned about everything today.
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    Matilde
    5
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    Lots of vegetation and life.
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    Maurio
    4
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    I recommend going in the morning and finding the best time to visit the gardens beforehand. Quick access in the queues made it easy for us to get in and seeing the whole place in the sun was spectacular.
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