You’ll already know the name of this southern Parisian by the airport.
And while that isn’t a poetic way, to sum up, Orly, it’s not really known as a holiday destination. But if you find yourself here you’ll be close to the center of Paris and many underrated places in the Val-de-Marne Department.
We’ll start with the things you can find locally in and near Orly, and then pick some of the best things to see on public transport in the capital. The RER C commuter train will be a godsend in Orly, as it will drop you at any number of internationally renowned museums and iconic sights on the left bank of the Seine.
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1. Orly Street Art
Maybe the best reason to take a good look around Orly is for all the modern public art in the suburb. None are monuments in their own right but they can all be part of a walking itinerary and photo tour.
Olivier Agid’s striking L’Oiseau Pylôn in Parc Marcel Cachin is exactly what it says it is: An electricity pylon sculpted into the form of a gigantic bird.
Also see Les Miroirs de Vent, at Place Saint-Exupéry by Claude Courtecuisse, the sundial by Alexandre Chemetoff in the Parc des Saules and the enormous Fresco depicting Léo Ferré on Rue Louis-Aragon.
2. Parc Georges Méliès
As you might gather from the name, the small château in this park has links to the trailblazing filmmaker Georges Méliès. The man who created the seminal Journey to the Moon lived here when the building was owned by an artists’ commune at the turn of the century.
The château was Orly’s town hall from 1949 to 1996, before being converted into a film school, teaching special effects, both digital and traditional, in the spirit of Georges Méliès a century ago.
3. Marché International de Rungis
If you aren’t aware of the Rungis Market, this isn’t a place to mill around for some groceries. Instead, it’s the largest wholesale market in the world, and it’s no stretch to say this well-oiled machine puts the food on Paris’ tables.
Most restaurants in the city source their ingredients from Rungis. And it’s a mind-blowing site, covering more than 230 hectares and bringing in 13,000 vendors and buyers every day.
Guided visits happen between 04:30 and 08:00 so it’s one for the early birds, but luckily Orly is right next door.
4. Musée d’Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne (MAC/VAL)
When opened in 2005, MAC / VAL was the first contemporary art museum established in the suburbs of Paris. The project cost more than €30 million and includes a spacious garden, studios for workshops, an auditorium and a cinema for experimental film.
The permanent collection has over a thousand pieces, plunging into every movement and sphere, from Kinetic Art to New Realism.
These permanent show is rotated every 18 months and features some leading lights of French 20th and 21st-century art like Pierre Soulages, Christian Boltanski and Cyprien Gaillard.
5. Exploradôme
For 10 years the interactive Exploradôme has been in the Jardin d’Acclimatation in Paris before moving to Vitry-sur-Seine in 2009. This museum is aimed squarely at kids and is all about hands-on learning.
Visitors are “forbidden not to touch”, as the thinking goes that you can find the keys to scientific phenomena by using your own hands and working things out for yourself. So you and your family will literally understand diverse topics such as motion, energy, structure and form, optical illusion and weather.
There’s also a Parcours Vert, which is all about sustainable development.
6. Fort de Sucy
In the Siege of Paris in 1870, Prussian forces used this foothold to bombard the southeast of Paris. So following the war Sucy was reinforced as part of the Séré de Rivières system. This fort is an excellent document about an almost forgotten period.
It took shape from 1879 to 1881 and was bolstered in 1911 and then 1935 in preparation for the two World Wars. The site was bought by the municipality in 1970 and over the last couple of decades has been restored and opened to visitors by the A la Découverte du Fort De Sucy association.
If military architecture is your thing you can spend an agreeable couple of hours hunting through ditches, underground passages, and vaulted chambers.
7. Catacombs of Paris
If you can beat the traffic, one of the top days out in Paris is 15-20 minutes away in Montparnasse. The creepy catacombs are the city’s subterranean ossuaries, storing the remains of over six million Paris inhabitants.
These bones date back several hundred years and were cleared from cemeteries like the Holy Innocents, which had to be shut down from the overuse in 1786. They were brought to this former quarry, where bones and skulls are stacked in eerie decorative patterns.
The tunnels are dimly lit and drip water from above, in case you weren’t freaked out already. Pick up an audioguide for extra depth.
8. Tour de Montparnasse
In the same neighborhood, you can ascend the 18th tallest building in the European Union. A defiant black monolith, the Tour de Montparnasse was finished in 1973 and has always divided opinion.
The joke goes that its roof offers the best view in Paris because the Tour de Montparnasse isn’t part of it. And with the same kind of reasoning, it’s also a wonderful alternative to the Eiffel Tower’s observation decks precisely because this Parisian icon is in the panorama.
The rooftop terrace is 56 floors up and 207 meters about the street level and the vistas of the Eiffel Tower shimmering at night are haunting.
9. Musée Fragonard d’Alfort
After shuffling through the Catacombs you can keep the ghoulish theme going at this bizarre museum at the National Veterinary School.
The museum is named for Honoré Fragonard, who was the school’s professor of anatomy in the 1760s, and in this time created a grisly series of anatomical exhibits known as Écorchés.
These are human and animal body parts, flayed, preserved and arranged in creepily artful displays more than 200 years before the famous Body Worlds exhibition.
It might not shock you to hear that Fragonard was dismissed and labeled a “madman”. There are 21 Écorchés remaining, and they take up one hall in a museum packed with anatomical oddities and specimens gathered since the 18th century.
10. Musée d’Orsay
Catch the RER to this astonishing art museum on the left bank of the Seine. You’ll be greeted by the largest assembly of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings on the planet.
Think van Gogh, Monet, Degas, Renoir, Cézanne; the collection is a dream come true for art aficionados and casual fans alike. That’s because so many of the works here are universally known, like van Gogh’s Starry Night Over the Rhone, or Renoir’s Bal du Moulin de la Galette.
And all this sublime painting, sculpture and applied art are set off by the haunting location, in the Beaux-Arts Gare d’Orsay train station, completed in 1900 and converted for this museum in 1986.
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