Claude Monet lived for almost forty-three years, from 1883 to 1926, in his house in Giverny. With a passion for gardening as well as for colours, he conceived both his flower garden and water garden as true works of art.

Walking through his house and gardens, visitors can still feel the atmosphere which reigned at the...

Maurice Denis, The Eternal Spring April 1st − July 15th, 2012

The musée des impressionnismes organises an exhibition exploring the theme of spring in the work of Maurice Denis (1870-1943).

The exhibition comprises approximately eighty works – paintings and drawings – and is accompanied...

From the first troglodytic hideaway to the blockhouses dug by Rommel into the cliff, discover 1000 years of history in one of the most protected site between Ile de France and Normandy.

Standing against the chalk cliff since the Middle Ages, dominating a loop of the Seine, this strange castle has always puzzled the visitor. From the...

The Stronghold of Richard the Lionheart...

... Think back to the fantastic life of Richard the Lionheart, the friend of Robin Hood, as Walter Scott related it in his novel Ivanhoe. Chateau-Gaillard is the very place where these romanticized stories meet History. For this fortress...