Experts' Choice Award Fondation Claude Monet
What the experts agree on
Monet's pastel-pink house anchors immaculate gardens that inspired his masterpieces—weeping willows frame water lilies, while rose-lined paths and flowering banks create the living canvas he spent 43 years perfecting.
“Monet’s house has an extraordinary joyful feel, and you can easily imagine his eight children running around outside.”
– The Telegraph
Time Out "The luxurious gardens surrounding the artist's pink house in Giverny are an ode to the painter's green fingers, with lines of rose bushes...you will find over 200 engravings collected by Monet" Full review
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Be prepared to queue; this is a pilgrimage site for many tourists.
Lonely PlanetTop choice
"Monet’s home for the last 43 years of his life...pastel-pink house and Water Lily studio stand on the periphery of the Clos Normand, with its symmetrically laid-out gardens bursting with flowers. " Full review
Frommer's "The garden looks much as it did when Monet was immortalizing it. Willows weep quietly into the ponds; heather, ferns, azaleas, and rhododendrons carpet the banks. " Full review
Lonely Planet "No one does lush greenery quite like the impressionists, and Monet's gardens at Giverny are the foremost example of the genre, from the iconic lily pond, with its famous wisteria-covered..."
Lonely Planet "Visiting Maison et Jardin de Claude Monet in France is like stepping inside Monet’s paintings. There are weeping willow trees, ponds sprinkled with water lilies and the Janese footbridge..."
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