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Impressionist first ever festival starts in high gear to celebrate JustLuxe hits the streets of Normandy, one of the most influential artistic movements of all time.

cobblestones of northern France are abuzz, as the very first Impressionist Festival starts in high gear. Planned from June to September, the Normandy region in France will celebrate one of the most important artistic movements in the history of art by a variety of cultural programs, exhibitions and activities.

Impressionist festival was under Laurent Fabius, President of the Roen, Elbeuf Austreberthe Community (CRE), together with the regional governments of Upper and Lower Normandy, the counties of Seine-Maritime and Eure, and the cities of Rouen and Caen initiated. With the support of the community, local businesses to urban centers and prominent personalities of culture, the unparalleled, multidisciplinary festival is poised to be one of the biggest landmark events in recent French history. After a recent trip to France, has the insider scoop JustLuxe for those lucky art lovers who are planning on attending the festival. As you know, the festival in northern France is, and where better to start than by visiting Giverny, more often than the estate and gardens of Claude Monet called.

travelers from Paris (or anywhere in France for that matter), the best way to get the region of Normandy, is by train. We want to found out that Rail Europe offers a quick and uncomplicated help Travel, offers a comfortable first-class cabin for those who ride in style. For only $ 335, you can create a first class France Rail Pass, which offers four days of unlimited travel, valid for a month. Not only are the high speed train (Train à Grand Vitesse), both luxurious and comfortable, they also offer unsurpassed views of the untouched landscape in French. After about an hour from yellow and green flashing panoramas through the windows, our train arrived in Vernon, a charming city full of history, lies just 30 minutes from Giverny. As you approach

Giverny, you will probably find yourself overcome with a feeling of surrealism, but this particular real estate is all about one thing: Impressionism. It was here, where Claude Monet went about his daily life, he raised eight children, and drew in the surrounding beauty of its extensive gardens. From the border obsessive Japanese prints, the ceiling, the walls, a kitchen that would make Alice Wonderland and proud, each room at the farm has been carefully restored by the Foundation Claude Monet Giverny.

While the interior of the pink farmhouse is undeniably impressive, the true beauty lays just outside. Spanning two and a half acres, the Jardins de Claude Monet a comfortable rest, sprinkled with vibrantly hued flowers and sweet aromas linger. One need not be an art fan to the known spots of color to recognize and lightâ shimmering spots? Where? but for those who know well Monet â?? This is really a profound experience. Cascading shrubs, lush greenery, and natural, graceful water lilies delicate scattered in the water garden are among the highlights of this well-preserved sanctuary. To celebrate the upcoming festival, the Musà © e de Giverny Impressionist Impressionism presented on the Seine: from Renoir and Monet to Matisse, an exhibition which brings together approximately 50 paintings from public and private collections, each of which was painted on the banks of the Seine River. The collection was developed to trace the history of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, by Eugène Boudin, by Henri Matisse.

After review of the gardens and masterpieces by Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, Sisley and we went to the Route of the Impressionists in Rouen, followed by a charming town between Paris and the Normandy coast. Once from Pissarro than just “beautiful like Venice” section, Rouen is best known for the love of landscape painters and is considered as a landmark instrumental during the time of the Impressionists.

The Route of the Impressionists runs along the Seine valley La Bouille, et Sahure Bonsecours and highlights 22 key indicators of places where famous artists once had up her easel set up and conquered the landscape before us lay. The six tourist routes are on Dieppe, Etretat, Le Havre, La Bouille, Rouen, Giverny and dispersed, and are by reading plates that describe impressionist painting was created on the site and marked by whom.

literally standing in the footsteps of some of the most influential artists of all time, we drove back into town, checked into the medieval Hotel Bourgtheroulde , adopted the burning grounds of Jeanne d Arc, and on our way the e © Musée des Beaux Arts . 100 masterpieces dedicated the city, “the thousand towers”, the Musa © e des Beaux Arts offers the best collection of Impressionists in France outside of Paris. In celebration of the festival, the museum presents: A city for Impressionism: Monet, Pissarro and Gauguin in Rouen. During

Impressionist paintings hang on the white walls inside, the real spectacle occurred just before their doors. On 5 June reached 1,250 people a new piece of Monet’s La Catha © chondral de Rouen, effet de soleil, fin de Jour © e, and how her arms extended to heaven, the puzzle came into focus and for all to see was projected, with a area of 600 square meters.

There is no denying that the much-anticipated festival in Impressionist has swept the streets of Upper and Lower Normandy. From museum exhibitions, and carefully mapped routes along the Seine, to exclusive pre-fix “Impressionist menus at local restaurants, is the impressionistic Festival a cultural event, can not escape that.