Brand g Paris, Normandy & the Seine River Cruise 2028

Itinerary

8 stops · 7 nights

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   Paris (France) Start

   Embarkation

   Paris welcomes you with the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre and Notre-Dame Cathedral on the Île de la Cité. You stroll along the quays of the Seine, climb up to Montmartre to the Sacré-Cœur and in the evening go to the Marais, where most of the queer bars in the city are located.

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   Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (France)

   Located at the confluence of the Seine and Oise rivers, Conflans-Sainte-Honorine is considered the capital of French inland shipping. On the quay, barges and barges are moored side by side, and at the Maritime Museum above the shore, you can learn how boatmen used to live on board.

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   Auvers-sur-Oise (France)

   Vincent van Gogh spent his last weeks in Auvers-sur-Oise and painted around seventy pictures here. You stand in front of the church he painted, see his room in the Auberge Ravoux and his grave next to that of his brother Theo on the edge of the wheat fields.

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   Rouen (France)

   Rouen has an old town with hundreds of half-timbered houses and the Gothic cathedral, which Claude Monet painted in a whole series of paintings. Joan of Arc was burned on the Vieux-Marché square, and the large clock spans the alley on Rue du Gros-Horloge.

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   Le Havre (France)

   Le Havre was rebuilt in concrete by Auguste Perret after World War II, and its center is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The tower of the Saint-Joseph church dominates the silhouette, and in the Musée Malraux on the harbor, you can see pictures of the Impressionists who painted the light of the Seine estuary here.

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   Caudebec-en-Caux (France)

   Caudebec-en-Caux is located on a bend in the Seine in the Normandy Regional Nature Park. The church of Notre-Dame in the late Gothic Flamboyant style characterizes the place, and nearby you can reach the ruins of Jumièges Abbey and the still inhabited monastery of Saint-Wandrille.

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   Les Andelys (France)

   Above Les Andelys towers the ruins of Château Gaillard, which Richard the Lionheart had built. From the castle hill you can see the white chalk cliffs and the wide bend of the Seine, down by the river lies the old town with the church of Notre-Dame du Grand Andely.

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   Vernon (France) Finish

   Disembarkation

   Vernon is the starting point for Giverny, where Claude Monet lived and painted for over forty years. In his garden, you'll stand by the lily pond with the Japanese bridge, and in Vernon itself, you'll see the old mill standing on pillars above the Seine.

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