1 MONET’S GARDEN, GIVERNY, FRANCE
uch is their beauty, it’s no wonder Claude Monet painted his stunning gardens at Giverny, close to Paris and Rouen. The impressionist artist made his home here for more than 40 years, nurturing a flourishing garden and capturing the pastoral paradise of water-lily ponds, an iconic Japanese-style wooden bridge and flower gardens in his beautiful 19th century paintings. In spring and summer the gardens are in full bloom, with wildflowers intermingling with herbs, as succulents