Giverny is a small village that would have remained naught but a sleepy little village in Normandy had Claude Monet not been looking out of the window of a train in 1883 and fell in love with it.
Despite the fame that he brought to the village, it remains small and the attractions are those that surround his former home. The gardens of this house will be familiar to you through having seen them in numerous paintings and the beauty of them has been lovingly maintained right to this day so you'll not be disappointed. Naturally, the village builds on this and you'll find numerous small workshops around the town, principally on the route between the main carpark and his house of course.
Monet died on December 5th, 1926 and is buried in the family vault nearby the local church.
The village rapidly fills with the outflow from tour buses throughout the main Summer season so, if you can, it's best to visit it slightly outside of the main season to best appreciate the beautiful gardens.
It's quite a small village and public transport to it is limited but, naturally, more than made up for by day trips tour buses from towns and villages for miles around. In practice though, you'll find it a much more enjoyable village if you make your own way there and thereby avoid the worst of the crowds.
Sadly, the train line which placed the village on the map in the first place is no longer running.
The nearest convenient airports lie in Paris of which the most convenient is probably Beauvais (BVA) used by Ryanair which is around an hours drive away.
