Guided Tours
Licensed Guides-Interpreters of Normandy
give guided tours of Monet’s gardens
April 1, 2012 - November 1, 2012
Contact: Giverny guides interpreters
Explore Monet’s home and gardens!
The guided tour will lead you through Claude Monet’s wonderful gardens at Giverny and unveil for you the charm of his home.
The visit lasts about 1 h15.
Meeting point is The Group Entrance.
By appointment only.
The Visit
Visiting Fondation Monet at Giverny with a guide, you will understand why these places inspired the leader of Impressionism. You will step on the famous Japanese bridge and walk around the water lily pond to observe the ever changing reflections on the water surface.
Then you will stroll across the Clos normand, the colorful flower garden blooming from spring to fall. Monet himself landscaped it by applying his sense of composition, perspective and colors to gardening.
The house is very authentic. You will see the first studio later to become the smoking-room, Monet’s and Alice’s separate bedrooms and bathrooms, the yellow dining-room with its extensive collection of Japanese woodblocks and the kitchen decorated with blue tiles.
Your guide will tell you how Monet transformed the house, a former farm, to his own taste. Thanks to many details about Monet’s family life in this very place you will take a leap backwards to the 19th Century.
Book your guided tour on line: Giverny guides interpreters
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Guided tours |
90 euros |
25 euros |
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Privately Guided Tours |
170 euros |
170 euros |
Guided Tour for Groups of 20 people or more:
- Book first your time slot with Monet’s Foundation;
- then book your guided tour on line here: Guides-Interpreters of Giverny ( one guide for 25 people maxi)
Guiding fees: 170 euros for the group.
- This rate does not include admission.
Tickets can be purchased at the Group Entrance: + 7 euros/person. - The guiding fees are to be paid to your guide
(by cash or transfer, we can’t handle credit cards) - Tour Duration: 1 hour 15.
The group will need at least 45 mn additional free time for pictures, gift shop, etc.
Groups over 30 people will have to be divided.
Because of the narrow rooms it is not allowed to guide inside Monet’s home. Explanations will be given outside, then you will visit the house on your own.