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Foundation of Claude Monet in Giverny: the House, the Gardens, the Japanese Stamps Collection
od 01/04/2009 do 31/10/2009

It is here that the painter Claude Monet, founder of the impressionism movement, lived during 43 years. The gardens of his house, the village and the surroundings of Giverny served him as models and still attract, every year, half a million visitors from the whole world, as well as the painters enticed by the particular light of the Seine valley.
The gardens were reconstructed identically and give from now on, to the admiration of the visitors, this "picture painted on nature itself" that the contemporaries of Claude Monet considered to be one of his chefs-d’œuvre.
In front of the house and workshops, the Normandy style yard with its straight lines, the arches of air plants surrounding with dazzling massifs offers from spring through fall the changeable palette of a painter gardener "mad about flowers".
A few steps away from the house a large workshop of Nymphéas was also restored. It shelters the Foundation Shop.
Further on, the water garden, formed by the Epte derivation, sheltered by the Weeping Willows, with its famous Japanese bridge, its wisterias, its azaleas, its pond, became again this sky and water box that gave birth to the pictorial world of nymphéas.
• OPEN HOURS: Every day, except Monday from 9h30 to 18h00.
• The estimated time of the visit: 1h30-2h00.
• Group reservations (20 persons minimum): maguero@fondation-monet.com
• 13 km away from the hotel (15 min by car).

For more information and rates: www.fondation-monet.com