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Two short walks in the hills above Giverny
These walks are highly recommended to make your visit of Giverny complete if you can spare around one hour free before you leave. . No visitor comes back without being delighted with the lanscape, the very lanscape that Claude Monet liked so much - a guarantee of its beauty... From the car parks, turn left into Claude Monet St when leaving the car park (the museums are on your right) and turn right into the first street. Walk up about 80 / 100 m.
You will find a map farther down the page. Starting path
Option 1/
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Option 2/ Total time: 60/ 65 minutes return, but since you are returning the way you came, you can decide to turn back whenever you like. Alternative route
In both cases, when you are back at the Village hall, walk down the street and turn left into Claude Monet St. The car park is 100 m away.
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Tourists interested in botany find here the remants of former sheep pastures with a number of remarkable plants betraying an important sub-mediterranean influence [one can see, for instance Astragale de Montpellier (Astragalus monspessulanus) and other plants such as Bugrane naine (Ononis pusilla), Orobanche de la Germandrée (Orobanche teucrii) or Hélianthème blanchâtre (Helianthenum oelandicum ssp incanum) ].
Please
refer to the page of the Conservatoire des Sites Naturels de Haute Normandie
(Preservation trust of natural sites in Haute Normandie) for more détails
about the vegetation of these karstic expanses or calcareous brushwood
or meadows through which the walk passes.
Other pages about Claude Monet's garden and Giverny : Welcome
to Giverny : a practical page for the visit of the garden
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