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Giverny Gardens Half Day Private Tour
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| Product Code: HGE5 |
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GIVERNY
Monet’s home & gardens
Details:
- Monet’s
home & gardens
- 5 hours
half day private tour in a
luxurious sedan (1 to 4 persons) or deluxe air-conditioned mini van (5 to 8 persons)
- Departure
at 9 a.m or 2 p.m
- Price
is per person based on 2 people traveling together
TOUR
DESCRIPTION :
Escorted by your
multilingual driver or professional driver/guide you will discover the
Seine river valley countryside.
You will be introduced
to the life and work of Monet, and receive a guided tour of Monet’s
house where he lived from 1883 to his death.
You will visit the
formal enclosed Norman Garden with its central alley covered by iron
arched trellises on which climbing roses grow among wisteria, tamarisk,
iris, lupines, snowdrops, primroses, poppies, daffodils… Monet often
planted flowers together according to their colors and then left them
to grow freely. In the Japanese Garden grow bamboo, poplar, weeping
willow, alder, quince and Japanese cherry trees. Here you will find the
famous Japanese bridge covered with wisteria from which you will wiew
the water lilies, which bloom all summer long. Monet would dedicate 20
years of his life to painting these water lilies, although he painted
as much the reflections of the flowers in the water as he painted the
flowers themselves, a kind of inverted world transfigured by the water.
You will certainly want to have a quick visit to the Museum of American
Art or stroll along the charming “route des Cretes”, passing near the
Chateau La Roche Guyon, passing through the village of Vetheuil where
Monet lived for 3 years.
Your guide will
explain the difficulties the Impressionists had in starting their
movement, the critical reaction, the closed doors that met them at
official exhibits and the evolution in tastes that has come about that
has assured their fame, and their place in the history of art.
And you will
understand why Monet refused one of France’s most distinguished awards,
the “legion d’honneur.”
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