9h

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​Pickup at your hotel for private tour. Pickup close to Arc de Triomphe for Shared tour (exact adress to be advised by mail).

A stunning and complete full day sightseeing tour of Paris in minibus and a visit of Giverny.

Constructed 2000 thousand years ago and divided in 20 districts, each one is a village with its own history and centres of interest.

Your professional guide will drive you to discover the most famous places and there will be 2 stops* within the tour.

You will see the Place de la Concorde with its Egyptian obelisk with its fountains, statues and columns, the Madeleine church, then the Opéra Garnier, Place Vendome with its column comitioned by Napoléon.

You will then take the Rivoli street before joining the Champs-Elysées Avenue. On the top is the Arc de Triomphe celebrating the Napoleon victories. After, you will go to see the Eiffel Tower* built for the Universal Exhibition in 1889.

You will follow the Seine river bank where are located most of the major historical buildings of the city: Le Grand and le Petit Palais, the Louvre Museum with its glass pyramid, the Tuileries gardens.

You will cross the river Seine to join the left bank. You will pass by Notre-Dame Cathedral. You will continue with the Latin Quarter, Le Pantheon, the Luxembourg gardens, St Germain, St Sulpice churches, Les Invalides built in the 18^th century where is Napoléon’s tomb.

You will finish this visit with the "village" of Montmartre* where you will have another 20 minutes to stroll around the Sacré-Coeur Basilica and to the Place du Tertre where all the historical artists and painters used to show their works.

After this astonished panorama of the city, you will go to Giverny. Situated in Normandy, the village of Giverny is world-wide known for Claude MONET’s house and atelier.
It is at one hour far from Paris. During the trip, our guide will tell you about the impressionist painters who went to Giverny to meet Claude Monet.

Claude Monet’s property has been left by his son to the Academy of Fine Arts in 1966. After a large scale renovation in 1980 it becomes a Foundation.
The house where the painter lived from 1883 to 1926 has its colourful décor and intimate charm of former times. The precious collection of Japanese is displayed in several rooms.
The gardens offer for the admiration of visitors the “painting of the nature” which Claude Monet’s contemporaries considered one of his masterpieces.

The rectangular “Clos Normand”, with archways of climbing plants entwined around brilliantly coloured shrubs, lies before the house and studios offering the palette of varying colours of the painter-gardener who was “ecstatic” about flowers.

Lastly, the water garden with its famous Japanese Bridge, its wisterias, azaleas and its pond has inspired the pictorial universe of the water lilies.
The guide will accompany you inside the gardens. Inside the house and atelier, it is not allowed to guide. Our guide will give all necessary information’s how to visit the house.
On the way back you will discover the gorgeous landscape of the Vexin Natural Park with its panorama over the river Seine, its charming villages: La Roche Guyon, Vétheuil …from the crest road.