Claude Monet's House and Gardens, Giverny

– A garden voted 2nd most beautiful flowery panorama in the world! –
1 hour from Paris, on the banks of the Seine, in the Eure (27)

Free for children under 7 years old, student and PRM rates

We like : an extraordinary garden (when it’s not too crowded), a very pleasant place with the family
Location : in Giverny (1 hour from Paris)
Age: all audiences
Opening : every day including public holidays from March to November
Opening hours : from 9:30 am to 6 pm (last admission at 5:30 pm)
Duration : allow at least 2 hours (the gardens invite you to stroll)
Free : for children under 7 years old
Namely:
- Booking a ticket online and a visit slot is highly recommended
- Classified as a House of the Illustrious and remarkable gardens

The Musée des Impressionnistes in Giverny – to discover all the facets of this major trend in painting and its aftermath – permanent and temporary exhibitions all year round
The cemetery to find Monet’s tomb where thousands of admirers come to flower the painter’s final resting place
The Château de Laroche-Guyon – a place steeped in history from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century
The Château de Bizy in Vernon. Built in the eighteenth century in a classic style and inspired by Versailles
The famous Château-Gaillard, the fortress of Richard the Lionheart from the twelfth century.

A bucolic walk through the sources of Claude Monet’s Impressionism

Located in the small village of Giverny, in Normandy, it is a real enchantment that you discover once you arrive there
Managed by the Claude Monet Foundation, the tour includes the longhouse with pink plaster and the gardens composed in two parts: the water garden populated by water lilies and its famous Japanese bridge and the Clos Normand
An infinite source of inspiration for the artist, Claude Monet spent 43 years there from 1883 to 1926.
We discover a floral and botanical universe that he composed and ordered himself
All seasons have allowed him to capture the effects of light so precious for his impressionist painting, which can be found in Paris at the Musée d’Orsay, the Musée Marmottan Monet and the Musée de l’Orangerie

A garden that has just been voted the^2nd most beautiful flowery panorama in the world!

When you arrive, you are literally captivated by the beauty of the place shaped by the man we called “the painter-gardener”
“Le Clos Normand” is a walled flower garden that Claude Monet recreated. Thanks to the talent of the gardeners, it rediscovers every year all the charm and energy desired by Monet
With a surface area of about 1 hectare, daisies and poppies, dahlias, bellflowers, sage and marigolds rub shoulders with the rarest species and form a multicoloured palette. At the end of summer, the rose bushes cross the arches in front of the house and the ground is covered with nasturtiums. That’s wonderful!
The “Water Garden” was created in 1893. Fascinated by Japan and in the manner of a Japanese print that he loved so much, Monet installed a pond overlooked by a small bridge
Populated by plants that inspire Asia, nature abounds: bamboo, ginkgo biloba, maples, shrub peonies and so many others…
Monet created a water mirror in which the water lilies flourish …
Absolutely grandiose in full bloom from the end of May to mid-July, the vision of the water lilies literally plunges us into a painting by the artist
Today, the Water Lilies, which he began painting in 1897, can be admired at the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris and in many museums around the world.

Every season, a new light! The beauty of the place appeals to young children who are so sensitive to colors and compositions

The family home is just as surprising and takes us into the shimmering atmosphere of the colors that made up his palette
On the ground floor, the small living room-boudoir is entirely painted in blue right down to the furniture, the dining room is golden yellow and the walls of the kitchen with its copper pans are tiled with blue Rouen earthenware tiles
The visit continues in the lounge-studio where everything has been meticulously reconstructed to make us relive Claude Monet’s place of creation
On the upper floors is Monet’s bedroom, faithfully staged. You can admire objects and paintings that have been reproduced