Giverny is another small town famous for a single inhabitant: Claude Monet. His house and gardens have become a Mecca for busloads of fans of this great impressionist painter.

We visited the gardens while dodging cloudbursts. This must be one of the places where we shot the most pictures per minute! Everywhere we turned there was color, composition, vistas...

Here are just a few pictures of the Claude Monet gardens in Giverny: