Welcome to Monet's garden! Giverny is a small town halfway between Paris and Rouen and it's a treasure. The town itself is nice enough with a Roman church and small cobbled streets. But the claim to fame...

Welcome to Monet's garden! Giverny is a small town halfway between Paris and Rouen and it's a treasure. The town itself is nice enough with a Roman church and small cobbled streets. But the claim to fame of Giverny is no doubt Monet's house and the gardens around it.

'There was a stream, the Epte, which came down from Gisors on the boundary of my property. I opened up a ditch so that I could fill the little pond that I had dug in my garden. I love water but I also love flowers. That's why, when the pond was filled, I wished to decorate it with plants. I took a catalogue and made a choice any old how. That's all.' That's how Monet puts it. Walk through the garden and you see what he means. See all the paintings come to life.

In town you also find many ateliers of modern painters, who have come from all over the world to work here.

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