Giverny
Versailles - The Fountain of Apollo
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Giverny and Versailles

From French Baroque and Classicism to Impressionism

  • Description

    While driving you along the Seine river valley to Giverny, the village in Normandy where Claude Monet lived from 1883 to 1926, your guide will retrace the painter’s life and his sources of inspiration.
    You will then visit his house and studio and the gardens he created as a subject for his paintings. See the ponds and the Japanese bridges built with a lock on the tiny Epte river for the Water Lilies series.
    On the way to Versailles, on a scenic road overlooking the Seine river valley and cross beautiful landscape and charming villages.

    The palace and the gardens of Versailles count among the most prestigious monuments of the world’s artistic heritage, a finest and most complete achievement of 17th century French art and the sumptuous theatre of history from Louis XIV to Louis XVI.

    Enjoy a private tour inside Versailles State Apartments / Hall of Mirrors

    – Private full day tour to Giverny and Versailles 9h
    – Pick-up from you hotel or aparment in Paris and back with minivan or minibus
    – Licensed guide
    – “Skip the line” entrance fees and reservation to Monet’s house and gardens in Giverny and to Versailles State Apartments/Hall of Mirrors and gardens included

    (Between 1 and 7 participants there is a guide driving – from 8 participants, there is a guide and a driver)

    Versailles - The Marble Courtyard
    Versailles - The Hall of Mirrors
    Versailles - The Gardens
    Claude Monet's House in Giverny
    The Japanese Bridge