What mystery does Giverny have? How this one hectare site - for the Norman Clos -, extended by the language of the water lilies, was able to welcome up to 700,000 visitors and become the second most visited place in Normandy after Mont-Saint-Michel? How can this small garden attract visitors from across the Atlantic, how did it set an example as far as Japan where a copy of Monet's garden was born in Kitagawa? It is undoubtedly not only because two genius bosses have ensured its rebirth: Gérald Van der Kemp, from 1976 to 2001, then, even today, Hugues Gall, former director of the Paris Opera, member of the Institute, which excels in keeping this green theater in the spotlight. Giverny's spell is more impressionistic: a multicolored vertigo that the light multiplies by the profusion of plants,heights, corollas, cutouts, petals, which bloom in lobes, lines, ears, tufts ...
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