Versailles and Giverny Day Trip
See more than Paris and take a day trip to Monet’s garden at Giverny and Louis XIV’s palace of Versailles. The full-day tour combines the two most popular excursions from Paris in one trip. You’ll explore France’s royal history at the incomparably grand Versailles palace and see the gardens that inspired so many of Claude Monet’s masterpieces at Giverny.
Monet lived at Giverny from 1883 to 1926, and it was here that he created such paintings as his famous “Nympheas” water lily sequence. Monet was the master of Impressionism, inspiring many visiting American Impressionist artists who walked through the gardens you’ll visit on your Giverny tour. The Japanese bridge crossing the famous water-lily pond also featured in Monet’s paintings. Read more…
