Giverny lies in the Eure department, in the Normandy region, around 80 kilometres north-west of Paris.
The village is set midway between Évreux and Gisors and only an hour from Rouen.
It stretches at the foot of gentle hillsides, on the edge of the river Epte, near the town of Vernon.
By car, allow about 1h15 from Paris via the A13 motorway, or 1h30 if you prefer to avoid tolls.
Free car parks await visitors near the Claude Monet Foundation.
By train, direct services from Paris Saint-Lazare reach Vernon-Giverny station in less than an hour.
From the station, a seasonal shuttle bus takes you in around twenty minutes to the heart of the village.
Some travelers also prefer to walk: a flat footpath of roughly 4.5 kilometers follows the route of an old railway line.
Giverny offers a verdant, almost intact landscape.
From its hillsides, the views over the Norman countryside reveal woods, glades and fields that the
Impressionist painters loved so much.
Several marked footpaths lead the curious traveller along the same viewpoints once chosen by Monet and his peers.

