Group tours and full-day programmes
Our Incoming Visitors Department offers a fast, efficient, reliable service.
Its highly competent staff know the area like the back of their hand. When you contact us, you will be allocated a specific
member of staff to help you plan your stay and find the ideal excursions in and around Le Havre. Whether you choose
from our range of group tours or put together your own itinerary, we will do our very best to make sure that your stay is a
success in every way.
Discovery day: Le Havre and Etretat, "In the Footsteps
of the Impressionists"
Prices :
Visite guidée groupe adulte : 46 €
prix par personne / prix calculé sur la
base d'un groupe composé de 50
participants payants
186 bd Clemenceau
76600 LE HAVRE
Tel : 02 32 74 04 05
E-mail : [email protected]
The stunning natural scenery of Etretat and Le Havre inspired a number of Impressionist painters. Away from the capital
and the artificial light of their studios, they were free to try and capture the fleeting beauty of the Alabaster Coast
landscapes with their subtly shifting clouds, endless reflections in water and dramatic changes of light.
9.30 a.m. Guided tour "In the Footsteps of the Avant-garde Painters, from the Pre-Impressionists to the
Fauvists"
This unusual tour offers a chance to compare great paintings with the unique light and scenery that inspired them. Inside
the Musée Malraux, a stylish glass building overlooking the outer harbour of Le Havre, is one of the most biggest
collections of Impressionist and Fauvist paintings in France, including works by Eugène Boudin, Claude Monet and
Camille Pissarro.
A short walk along the seafront takes you back in time to the "world's end" − the maritime scenery painted by Courbet
and Dufy and the seaside villas of "Le Havre's answer to Nice" depicted by painter Othon Friesz − following in the
footsteps of the artists who produced the first modern paintings.
12.30 p.m. Lunch in a restaurant in Le Havre
3.00 p.m. Guided tour of Etretat
Once a fishing village known for its spectacular cliffs bathed in dazzling light, these days, Etretat is a world-famous
seaside resort. Etretat's romantic cliff landscapes have inspired eminent creative artists from all disciplines − composers
like Messager and Offenbach, well-known writers such as Gustave Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant, Maurice Leblanc and
Algernon Swinburne, and of course painters. Monet, Boudin, Corot, Manet and Courbet produced many paintings of
Etretat. During the tour, you will learn the history and legends of Etretat and take in sights such as the Falaise d'Aval (the
famous marine march) and the Falaise d•Amont, the Nungesser and Coli Monument, the seafarers' chapel, the town
centre, with its old covered market, and the medieval Manoir de la Salamandre.
4.30 p.m. Tour ends.
Times are indicative and may vary.
Tour programme offered every day except Tuesdays, subject to staff availability.
*Price based on a group of 50 paying participants.
Price covers:
• entrance to the above sites and museums
• the services of a tour guide
• lunch, including drinks.
Price does not cover:
• coach transport
• personal spending
• insurance
• extra drinks
• items not on the menu.
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