An Exclusive Experience to walk in the footsteps of two of the world's most iconic painters, Claude Monet and Vincent van Gogh, two beautiful villages, Giverny and Auvers sur Oise.

Duration

All-day activity! - lasts approximately 9.5 hours, including transportation

Highlights

• Monet’s Home: Visit the painter's house, the yellow dining room, his first workshop and the kitchen
• ​The Flower Garden: Find the flower landscapes dear to the impressionist master
• Spend time there and observe the variations of light in the Water Garden
• See the famous little green japanese bridge
• Discover the wheat fields that Vincent Van Gogh painted
• Visit his room at Auberge Ravoux

Inclusions

• Small Group Guided Day Trip
• Licensed Professional driver Guide
• Hotel Pick up & Drop off
• Transport by luxury A/C minibus
• Skip the line & Priority Admission

Conditions

• Please bring a photo ID. Passengers of all ages are accepted in the tour, but at least one adult of age 18+ is required per reservation.
• During transportation, children below the age of 10 must be seated in a child chair by French law.

About

On this small group day trip from Paris, discover two of the most colorful sites in Normandy. Your guide meet you at your hotel in Paris. Take aboard a luxury vehicle for a ride around about one hour to Giverny.

Thanks to skip the line access, the guide shares the calm and almost other worldly beauty of Claude Monet’s Home and Gardens. Learn about the famous Impressionist and enjoy to explore inside his colored home, stroll along the charming paths of his flower garden, and admire the water garden with the little green bridge and lake full of his famous water lilies.

The House and Gardens of Claude Monet in Giverny Pierce the secrets of one of the pillars of Impressionism, Claude Monet. Leader of the pictorial movement of the 19th century, he brought a wind a change to academic representative art introducing heightened perception, emotions and light. The painter devoted more than forty years of his life to one of his finest masterpieces: his garden in Giverny.

The Clos Normand The artist gardener sought to transform a simple orchard into magnificent colorful garden: Japanese cherry trees, flowerbeds of nasturtiums, tulips and roses, an explosion of colors for each season.

The Water Garden Wander through the romantic water garden, with its famous Japanese bridge, the wisterias, the water-lilies pond, the weeping willows and irises... Behold this living picture with its profusion of reflected light and colors.

The House Visit the master's charming pink house where a family atmosphere reigned. Discover the painter's everyday life surrounded by eight children: the drawing room, the pantry, the bedroom, the study, the dining room and the beautiful kitchen...Admire his collection of Japanese prints, another source of inspiration.

The Studio End your visit with the big studio where the famous water-lilies paintings saw the light of day. These paintings are exhibited at the Orangerie Museum in Paris. Enjoy the souvenir shop.

Your guide will then suggest several different options for a nice lunch in the charming village of Giverny.

Vincent Van Gogh Tour Visit the village and the region of Auvers-sur-Oise. Follow in the footsteps of Vincent Van Gogh. discover an open-air museum: the wheat fields, the famous church, his gloomy bedroom int the Ravoux Inn, and the twin graves of the Van Gogh brothers.

After the visit, transfer to Paris. Your guide drop you off at your accommodation in Paris.