Heritage Days 2025 at Paris Orly airport: the program

In September, it's the turn of Journées du Patrimoine (Heritage Days), the flagship event inviting us to explore our treasures through a wide range of activities. Over the course of a weekend, the general public is invited to enjoy a wide range of visits, including exceptional openings at fascinating sites. These are often coupled with special events, and the range of activities on offer in Paris and the Ile-de-France region is so vast that the Journées du Patrimoine is an opportunity for all passions to come together. So, are you looking for an idea for this 42nd edition?

This is your chance to rediscover one of Paris's airports:Paris-Orly airport, straddling theEssonne and Val-de-Marne departments. On the weekend of September 20 and 21, 2025, we invite you to experience a special program to mark the occasion. France's second-largest airport after Paris Charles-de-Gaulle, Orly is located in the area once associated with Port-Aviation, the world's first organized airfield, inaugurated in 1909.

In 1918, the year Port-Aviation closed down, theOrly airport project began to emerge, with the Orly - Villeneuve air camp set up on land requisitioned by the Ministry of War. Two wars later, the site was expanded and adapted to suit changing needs and times, before becoming what it is today.

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The Journées du Patrimoine 2025 program at Paris Orly airport

• Dramatized tours of Orly airport 4
  Saturday, September 20, 2025 - 10:45 ⤏ 12:00, 13:45 ⤏ 15:00 | Sunday, September 21, 2025 - 10:45 ⤏ 12:00, 13:45 ⤏ 15:00
  

  Embark at Paris-Orly for an immersion in history:

  Let yourself be transported by actors in a lively and surprising show.

  From the birth of the terminal to the present day, they'll help you relive or discover the great hours of Orly airport through a humorous fresco, playfully synthesizing historical, architectural, cinematographic and anecdotal knowledge linked to the terminal.

  "A few years after Charles de Gaulle inaugurated the Orly Sud terminal in 1961, golden-voiced Janine Dupont and Henri Vicariot, the airport's designer, land in the future.

  They've tried out the prototype of the time machine Vicariot is working on as a new technical challenge...but find themselves at Orly 4 in 2025...

  This will be an opportunity for our trio to get the audience involved and discover the Orly of the sixties."