The mansion of one of the most famous artists in the world, Oscar-Claude Monet, is located in the village of Giverny, Normandy, the North of France. Here the painter spent exactly half of his long and interesting life.

If you take the train to Vernon-Giverny at the Gare Saint-Lazare in Paris, you can then take a special bus from this station to the village. And the bus stops just outside the two-storied Monet House-Museum in Giverny.

Since childhood Monet showed himself as a cartoonist, but, as a grown-up, he slipped from cartoons to serious painting. And at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, he became one of the founders of impressionism – the most realistic direction of fine art. It should be noted that, unlike many other artists of the time, Claude Monet was quite successful and became famous during his lifetime. He received orders and participated in exhibitions. But he also had another hobby – flowers.

When Monet moved to live in a manor house in the village of Giverny, he and his assistants grew a beautiful garden with a huge number of flowers in three years. And a bit later, when he bought another land plot, he designed there a water garden (pond) with all the varieties of lilies known at that time. Now all this splendor of flowering plants is available for tourists.

In the house where the great artist lived and worked, there is not only the preserved furniture but also the entire atmosphere of the past. And the beautiful garden seems to remember the warmth of Monet's hands, who lovingly grew the flowers. In addition to that, the Claude Monet House-Museum keeps many of his paintings. The whole atmosphere of the house is conducive to reflection and sets up visitors to a lyrical mood.

A walk through the garden and a fairly large house-museum is not just an introduction to the place of life and work of the artist, where he spent 43 years, but also a kind of journey to that distant era of the birth of impressionism. Looking at the Japanese bridge, gorgeous lilies, and a pond with water lilies, it seems that Claude Monet's paintings became alive.