While you are in Paris don’t miss the chance to slip out of town to visit Monet’s charming house and inspirational garden.
This delightful afternoon tour whisks you away to the village of Giverny where the green-fingered Impressionist master created the glorious gardens he wanted to paint.
Admire Monet’s house with its famous pink façade and green-painted shutters, the flower beds full of exuberant color, the pergolas laden with climbing plants, the wisteria-covered Japanese foot-bridge and the famous lily pond.
Learn how Monet’s passion for color was expressed not only in the gardens he adored but also in the interior of his home. Visit the blue living room and the sunny yellow dining room; see the lovely tiled kitchen and the stunning collection of Japanese engravings.
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When does it run?
01 Apr to 31 Oct: Tuesdays - Saturdays
Duration
Approx 4 hours 30 minutes
Start time
1330h (1:30pm)
Meeting point
Please make your way to 11 avenue de l'Opéra 75001 Paris.
Please reach the meeting point 15 minutes earlier for pre departure briefing.
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Ending point
The tour ends at the starting point
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To join your Afternoon at Giverny tour from Paris you should make your way to 11 avenue de l'Opéra 75001 Paris. Here, you will board a comfortable air-conditioned coach for the journey to the village of Giverny and the house of the artist Claude Monet. A bilingual hostess (English and French-speaking) will accompany you in the coach. Please hand your booking voucher to her on boarding.
The tour departs at 1330h (1:30pm) and the journey takes around 1 hour 40 minutes. On arrival at Giverny, your hostess will go to the entrance to collect your admission ticket allowing you to skip the queues at this popular attraction.
Claude Monet, one of the founders of the Impressionist movement, was a passionate gardener who once remarked that flowers were possibly the reason he became a painter.
Monet spent almost 43 years in Giverny where he first rented and then actually bought a house and the land around it. He then set about creating the horticultural masterpiece we see today. He not only constructed paths and pergolas and planted a huge variety of flowers and shrubs, but also diverted a stream, made a pond, filled it with water lilies and built a Japanese-style footbridge.
Stroll through Monet’s delightful gardens and find out how his genius enabled him to paint with flowers as well as oil paints. Visit the water-lily pond, the subject of so many of his paintings. Enjoy the satisfying shapes of the water-lily leaves, the colors of the lilies (if in bloom) the drooping leaves of the willow trees and the lovely reflections in the water.
On entering the house, you will find the original vibrant color schemes that Monet favored. See the blue living room and the sunny yellow dining room, so different from the dark heavy interiors of a typical late 19th century home. You can visit Monet’s bedroom with its beautiful views over the gardens he loved, admire the gorgeous blue and white Rouen tiles of the kitchen and enjoy the marvellous collection of Japanese engravings the artist acquired over the years.
At the end of the day you will board your coach for the journey back to Paris. The tour ends back at 11 Avenue de l'Opéra around 1800h (6:00pm).