Giverny 作者： 来源： 发布时间：2021-09-27
I.Population and Area
Region: Haute-Normandie
Department: Eure
Code Insee : 27285
Code postal : 27620
Total Area: 6.46km²
Population in 2017: 494
Population Density: 76 /km²
Location: The altitude of the city hall of Giverny is approximately 30 meters. Its surface area is 6.46 km². The latitude and longitude of Ges are 49.077 degrees North and 1.526 degrees East. The towns and villages near Giverny are: Port-Villez (78270) at 1.65 km, Limetz-Villez (78270) at 2.48 km, Bois-Jérôme-Saint-Ouen (27620) at 3.08 km, Vernon (27200) at 3.47 km , Sainte-Geneviève-lès-Gasny (27620) at 4.38 km.
Histogram of demographic change
Sources : http://www.cartesfrance.fr/carte-france-ville/27285_Giverny.html
II.Natural Geography
Geographical environment: Giverny is a commune in the northern French department of Eure. The village is located on the "right bank" of the river Seine at its confluence with the river Epte. It lies 80 km (50 mi) west-northwest of Paris, in the old province of Normandy. It is best known as the location of Claude Monet's garden and home. Several American Impressionist artists also settled in Giverny, drawn by the landscapes, the overall atmosphere, and the presence of Monet.
Climat: The Giverny lies on 126m above sea level. The climate is warm. Giverny has a significant amount of rainfall during the year. This is true even for the driest month. The temperature here averages 10.2 °C (50.3 °F). The annual rainfall is 639 mm(25.2 inch). The driest month is April, with 44 mm(1.7 inch) of rainfall. With an average of 63 mm (2.5 inch), the most precipitation falls in November. The warmest month of the year is July, with an average temperature of 17.5 °C (63.5 °F). January has the lowest average temperature of the year. It is 2.8 °C (37.0 °F). The difference in precipitation between the driest month and the wettest month is 19 mm (1 inch). During the year, the average temperatures vary by 14.7 °C (58.5 °F).
Transport:
(1) Trains: Giverny makes for an easy day trip out of Paris. There is a train about every hour in each direction between Paris' Gare Saint-Lazare and the station in Vernon. The closest train station is Vernon - Giverny station, located on the territory of the commune of Vernon, which is 6Km away from Giverny. From Vernon station to Giverny (4 miles one way), you have 4 options : bus, taxi, bike or on foot. Each solution is very easy to find. The quickest and cheapest way is to take the Shuttle Vernon-Giverny. In Vernon, take an underground passage and follow the taxi-bus signs. Each shuttle matches train arrival and departure from/to Paris. Find more information to know timetable here .It takes 15 minutes to reach Giverny and return ticket costs 8 €. Be careful: prepare some cash upstream, the only way to pay the driver.
Location of Giverny shuttle bus station: 41 Chemin du Roy, 27620 Giverny, France
(2) Airports: The closest Airports of Giverny are: Beauvais-Tillé Airport (BVA) 60.09km,Orly Airport (ORY) 72.10km,Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG) 76.23km. You can reach Giverny from this Cities by Plane: London (LCY), Leeds (LBA), Athens (ATH), Ljubljana (LJU), Glasgow (GLA), Copenhagen (CPH), Mumbai (BOM), New Delhi (DEL), Islamabad (ISB), Vienna (VIE), Birmingham (BHX), Edinburgh (EDI), Exeter (EXT), Toronto (YYZ), Detroit (DTW), Lyon (LYS), Hamburg (HAM), Newcastle upon Tyne (NCL), Oslo (RYG), Bremen (BRE).
(3) Others: Two of the GR or Grande Randonnée (or long-distance paths) connect Vernon and Giverny.
Sources : https://en.climate-data.org/europe/france/upper-normandy/giverny-433641/
http://paristogiverny.com/how-to-get-to-giverny/
III.Economy
Giverny Accounting income in 2018 was 110 800 €, or 218 € per inhabitants.
Self-financing capacity in 2018 was 137 000 €, or 269 € per inhabitants.
Income: According to Insee, in 2014, the inhabitants of Giverny earn on average € 3 287 net per month, or € 39 444 net per year, much higher than average income in France.
Unemployment rate: In 2016, its unemployment rate was 9.5%, which was lower than the French average of 11%.
Companies: In 2017, the total number of companies in Giverny was 51, and there were 10 new companies.
Evolution of average monthly net wages
Sources :
http://www.journaldunet.com/management/ville/giverny/ville-27285/budget
http://www.journaldunet.com/management/ville/giverny/ville-27285/entreprises
IV.Industrial Characterisitics
Region industries: The nearest city Vernon is also at the forefront of modern industry, with the engine for the Ariane rockets built here.
Tourism: 627,000 visitors per year at Monet’s House and Gardens, which makes this destination the second most visited tourist site in Normandy just behind the infamous Mont Saint-Michel Abbey. 178,000 visitors per year at the Giverny Museum of Impressionisms (data 2014). This is why the town of Giverny had to create a Tourist Welcome Center that was entirely dedicated to the town’s tourism industry.
Sources: https://tourisme.paysdegrasse.fr/en/node/431
https://www.avignon-et-provence.com/tourisme-provence/grasse
V.Attractions
1.Claude Monet's house and gardens
This is the best choice to find out more about the history of Impressionism. At the heart of the pretty village of Giverny, the house of Claude Monet, where the artist lived with his family from 1883 to 1926, was a famous source of inspiration for the famous Impressionist painter, with its sumptuous listed Remarkable Gardens. In this place, at the heart of the Norman Enclosure and the Water Garden, both of which have been identically recreated, Claude Monet painted some of his greatest works, such as the famous Water Lilies, which are now exhibited at the Orangerie museum in Paris.
A small arm of the Epte runs through the Water Garden, which was created by the artist himself, forming a magnificent Japanese-inspired group with its famous little green bridge adorned with wisteria, a pond dotted with countless water lilies, and banks planted with weeping willows, bamboo trees, poppies and lilies. An exotic setting full of Romantic charm...
In front of the pink house with green shutters, the floral garden called the Norman Enclosure offers a splendid palette of colours from Spring to Autumn. Its countless climbing roses and abundant flower beds make it a paradise for flower-lovers!
From April to November, a tour of Monet's house as well as the superb collection of Japanese prints gathered together by Claude Monet provide an opportunity to discover the atmosphere of the master Impressionist's home, in various rooms furnished in the style of the time, such as the small blue living room, the living room-workshop, the yellow dining room and its ceramic crockery, the blue tiled kitchen and its copper utensils, and the private apartments located on the first floor.
Website: fondation-monet.com
Location: 84 Rue Claude Monet, 27620 Giverny, France
Source: https://www.france-voyage.com/tourism/claude-monet-house-gardens-1779.htm
2.Church Sainte-Radegonde
Located Giverny, in Eure, the Sainte-Radegonde church is a Romanesque building built in the eleventh century and rebuilt in the sixteenth. Listed historical monument, it still reveals original features such as vaulted semicircular apse in half dome.
Inside, religious art lovers will appreciate the richness of the furniture and decorations including a high altar in the seventeenth century painted wood depicting the transfiguration of Jesus on Mount Tabor, a wooden statue of St. John the Baptist eighteenth century, a wooden Christ attached to the beam of glory or a stone statue of St. Quentin tortured the sixteenth century.
In the surrounding cemetery, it is possible to visit the grave of the painter Claude Monet and his family.
Location: 53 / 55 Rue Claude Monet, Giverny, France
Source: https://www.france-voyage.com/cities-towns/giverny-7978/church-sainte-radegonde-17990.htm
3.Giverny Museum of Impressionisms
In september 2006, The Terra Fondation for the Arts decided to withdraw from the musée d’Art Américain de Giverny it had created fifteen years ago. What would be the future of this place, the most important museum in the Eure district with its 100 000 visitors, a museum equipped with modern and perfectly operating facilities? The local authorities took the project in hand. In partnership with le musée d’Orsay, fondation Claude Monet and musée Marmottan, the museum starts out again as Musée des Impressionnismes Giverny. As its name has it the Museum of Impressionisms Giverny focuses on all the different forms of Impressionism, one of the most popular painting movement. Its origins, its geographical diversity, its history and development in other streams, are the themes the museum deals with. Because Giverny is not only an essentiel stop on an impressionist route in the Seine Valley, it is also a crucial landmark in the turn from Impressionism to the art of the 20th century.
Philippe Robert and the Reichen and Robert agency conceived the architecture of the museum opened in 1992. The architects developed a discreet building in order not to damage the area, and to advantage the content. They sought to create a unique atmosphere for the appreciation of art. This has been accomplished by juxtaposing subtle colors and materials, contrasting shadow and light and by creating an open accessibility between the interior and the exterior of the building; the result is an homage to this special natural setting so beloved by the Impressionists. The museum topped by roofs landscaped in heather is inscribed into the natural slope of the land, allowing the minimum of opaque walls. From inside the view is focused toward the North and the hills of Giverny. The interior of the museum is organised around a large and well-lit hall. To the left are the three exhibition galleries, whose levels are graduated to follow the slope of the land. To the right is the restaurant on the ground floor with its large terrace. On the lower level, a 200-seat auditorium ideal for conferences or concerts is reached by a foyer situated directly under the main hall, allowing access even when the galleries are closed.
Giverny Museum of Impressionisms is surrounded by entrance free gardens. The gardens are divided into small spaces enclosed by hedges which constitute as many little "worlds". Each of the greenery rooms has its own harmony of colours and shapes. Sometimes an exuberance of perennial flowers, sometimes neatness of trimmed clumps. Taken together they create an intimate, somehow secret, garden landscape where it is pleasant to stroll. The central alley with its wisteria-covered arches leading to the museum entrance refers to Claude Monet's garden. However the gardens of Giverny Museum of Impressionisms have their own unique personality. Behind the museum a large meadow full of poppies, cornflowers and daisies opens on the hill. It is the ideal place to come and paint in the impressionist manner.
Website: http://giverny.org/museums/impressionism/index.htm
Location: 99 Rue Claude Monet, 27620 Giverny, France
Source: http://giverny.org/museums/impressionism/presentation/
4.The Museum of Natural Mechanics
The Museum of Natural Mechanics presents a large collection of industrial or agricultural engines from around the world that three passionate brothers have gathered. All machines have been restored and are in working order.
The exceptional museum houses a collection of both industrial and farming vehicle engines which three brothers, all three of them mechanics, have been restoring since 1966 and who all share the same passion: bringing machines back to life. A collection of hydraulic machines which have been brought from the four corners of the world (the United States, France, Poland and England amongst others) are exhibited here and have been restored into complete working order. From motor pumps to farm vehicle engines you would think have come straight out of the film Modern Times as well as some craftsmen’s machines such as an 1824 verneering wood saw which can cut precious wood into fine layers to the nearest tenth of a millimeter! The “Le Moteur est dans le Pré” exhibition, (Engines and Happiness are in the Field), is held here the first week-end in September.
Opening time: every afternoon from April to October from 2p.m until 6p.m
Location: 2, rue Blanche Hoschédé Monet, 27620 Giverny, France
Source: http://www.cape-tourisme.fr/en/the-museum-of-natural-mechanics-giverny/
5.Hotel Baudy
A break can be considered to the old hotel Baudy, which has a beautiful rose garden, and which welcomed the painters staying in the village. Once a humble roadside café in rural Giverny, the little-known nineteenth-century buvette owned by Angelina and Gaston Baudy evolved into a lively gathering place for an eccentric community of now internationally acclaimed artists after painter Claude Monet settled in the bucolic township.
The courtyard, above, retains an enchanting sense of abandon common to the lush hillside flower gardens cultivated in Giverny at the close of the nineteenth century. Meandering paths, thick with rosebushes and bordered by daisies and Hypericum, reveal clearings where now-legendary painters, such as Paul Cézanne and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, positioned their easels to portray the blossoms that flourish on the property in May and June. Many canvases were completed in the shelter of this rustic vine-covered studio, built in 1887.
Location: Upper Normandy, 81 Rue Claude Monet, 27620 Giverny, France
Source: https://www.victoriamag.com/hotel-baudy-giverny-france/
VI.History
A settlement has existed in Giverny since neolithic times and a monument uncovered attests to this fact. Archeological finds have included bootees dating from Gallo-Roman times and to the earlier 1st and 2nd centuries AD. The town was known in ancient deeds as "Warnacum". The cultivation of grapes has been an occupation of the inhabitants of Giverny since Merovingian times. The village church dates from the Middle Ages and is built partially in the Romanesque style, though additions have since been made. It is dedicated to Sainte-Radegonde. The village has remained a small rural setting with a modest population (numbering around 301 in 1883 when Monet discovered it) and has since seen a boom in tourism since the restoration of Monet's house and gardens.
However, the history of the town which today has about 500 inhabitants is upset in 1883 when the painter Claude Monet, who had discovered the village on the occasion of a train ride, is seduced by the landscape and decides to settle there. He first rented an old farmhouse, "La Maison du Pressoir", which he bought in 1890 and set up exceptional gardens that would be the main frame of his work. He even created a pond covered with water lilies and spanned by a Japanese bridge. Claude Monet noticed the village of Giverny while looking out of a train window. He made up his mind to move there and rented a house and the area surrounding it. In 1890 he had enough money to buy the house and land outright and set out to create the magnificent gardens he wanted to paint. Some of his most famous paintings were of his garden in Giverny, famous for its rectangular Clos Normand, with archways of climbing plants entwined around colored shrubs, and the water garden, formed by a tributary to the Epte, with the Japanese bridge, the pond with the water lilies, the wisterias and the azaleas.
A few years later, other painters - especially American - settled and Giverny became alive even Monet a capital of art and in particular of Impressionism. Claude Monet died in 1926 and is buried in the village. Today, Giverny and its museums attract hundreds of thousands of visitors every year and has become a cultural tourism landmark.
Sources:https://www.france-voyage.com/cities-towns/giverny-7978.htm
VII.Other information
The village of Giverny is known for having inspired Claude Monet for his famous "Water Lilies". In the 19th century, Giverny also became a land of welcome for many artists, especially Americans. The city of Grasse has been labeled“ 2 flowers ”since 2016 by the National Council of Cities and Villages in bloom.
Sources : http://www.journaldunet.com/management/ville/giverny/ville-27285
VIII.Contact information
Address of Giverny town hall:
Mairie de Giverny
7, chemin Blanche-Hoschedé-Monet
27620 Giverny
Phone number: 02 32 51 28 22
Fax: 02 32 51 72 79
E-mail: mairie-giverny@wanadoo.fr
Mayor : Claude Landais (Mandat : 2014-2020)
Sources : http://www.cartesfrance.fr/carte-france-ville/27285_Giverny.html#mairie