Situated in Normandy, the village of Giverny is world-wide known for Claude Monet's genuine and ladylike house and workshop. The gardens offer for the admiration of visitors of "painting of the nature" which Claude Monet's contemporaries considered one of his masterpieces. Lastly, the water garden with its famous Japanese Bridge, its wisterias, azaleas and its pond has inspired the pictorial universe of the water lilies.