Small Group Giverny and Rouen Day Trip from Paris

Small Group Giverny and Rouen Day Trip from Paris

On this small group day trip with a private professional guide from Paris, discover two of the most iconic sites of Normandy with a professional private guide. You’ll explore the fabulous city of Rouen, its cobbled streets, its half-timbered houses and its sumptuous cathedral. You’ll also discover Claude Monet’s gardens and house in Giverny. His flower gardens, the Clos Normand but also the water garden, and its Japanese bridge. An incredible place, rich of inspirations for the artist.

Itinerary
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Stop At: Giverny, Giverny, Eure, Haute-Normandie, Normandy

The calm and almost other worldly beauty of Claude Monet’s Village

Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: Fondation Claude Monet, 84 Rue Claude Monet, 27620 Giverny France

Pierce the secrets of one of the pillars of Impressionism, Claude Monet. Leader of the pictorial movement of the 19th century, he brought a wind a change to academic representative art introducing heightened perception, emotions and light. The painter devoted more than forty years of his life to one of his finest masterpieces: his garden in Giverny

Duration: 2 hours

Stop At: The Clos Normand - Fondation Claude Monet, 84 rue Claude Monet, 27620 Giverny France

The artist gardener sought to transform a simple orchard into magnificent colorful garden: Japanese cherry trees, flowerbeds of nasturtiums, tulips and roses, an explosion of colors for each season.

Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Rouen, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, Normandy

Discover the authentic Norman city of Rouen. It is hard to resist the charm of this city: the old Rouen, the Courthouse, the Cathedral and Joan of Arc square. Your guide will take you through this captivating city discover its multiple facets. Real museum city, Rouen enchant you with its beautiful half-timbered houses, cobbled streets and Gothic churches. Rouen is also nicknamed the "City of 100 steeples"

Duration: 2 hours

Stop At: St. Maclou's Church, 3 rue Eugene Dutuit St-Maclou, 76000, Rouen France

Discover the Saint-Maclou Church, a gem of Flamboyant Gothic art and the Saint-Maclou Atrium, an old parish cemetery created during the Great Black Plague of 1348.

Continue your walk with the Saint-Ouen Abbey and the Courthouse, one of the beautiful achievements of the civil architecture of the late Middle Ages. Here is the oldest Jewish monument of France, the only example of medieval "Yeshiva" in the world.

Duration: 20 minutes

Stop At: Place de la Cathédrale, 76000 Rouen, France

The Notre-Dame cathedral is remarkable for the juxtaposition of all periods of the Gothic style, especially on its facade. Claude Monet captured this remarkable Gothic cathedral from an apartment facing it. He immortalized the compelling light reflected off this masterpiece in a series of 28 paintings.

Stroll through the antiquarian district among the stunning half-timbered houses. This atmosphere inspired Pissaro in his famous urban series. In this district, one of the most beautiful and oldest of Rouen.

Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: Eglise Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc, Place du Vieux-Marche, 76000, Rouen France

Rouen was the scene of the martyrdom of Joan of Arc condemned and burned in 1431. Find the exact place where she was burned, close to the Church of St. Joan of Arc whose stained glass windows are from the 16th century.

Duration: 20 minutes

Stop At: Gros-Horloge, Rue du Gros Horloge, 76000, Rouen France

The Great Clock and Belfry

The yawning renaissance arcade of the Great Clock spans the cobbled street and houses one of the oldest clock mechanisms in Europe. Flanked by a belfry tower with the city's bells, the Great Clock, Renaissance arcade spans the street and houses one of the oldest clock mechanisms in Europe. On each side, its single-needle dials are richly decorated. Walk down the famous rue du Gros Horloge with its unique Renaissance double-faced clock.

Duration: 20 minutes